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Index.
Baram, Borneo, charm to prolccl
fiuit-trees, 174-5 Barbarossa legend, parallels to : armed
giant issues from mountain when
Korea in danger, 327-8 ; " Old
Man " of Thompson Indians,
British Columbia, 398 Barnet, customs in building trade,
457-8 Ba-Ronga, works on, 1S7 Barrows, Age of, 83-4 ; empty, 79 ;
opening lays ghost, Wiltshire,
347 Baschurch, Salop, bat respected,
239 Bat, caught before St. George's Day, 255 ; form of soul, 235 ; killed, Shropshire, 256 ; respected locally,
239
Bath of new-born child heated by red- hot cinders, Lancashire, 106
Bathers, clothes seized by Krishna, 16-7 ; drowned by water spirit, near Cairo, 387-8
Bathing, in sea on Ascension Day, Calymnos, 221 ; spirit of sweat- bathing tribal deity of Thompson Indians, British Columbia, 398
Batna, see Lilith
Bavaria : {see also Wlirzburg) ; cat respected, 239 ; goose sacrificed,
253 Bear, carried in procession, 258 ;
clan of Wyandot Indians, 192 ;
clan of Nisqa, head-dress of, 63 ;
in clan legend of Tsimshian
Indians, 60 ; Marathi beliefs of,
99 ; in Rumanian charm, 131 ;
sacrificed, Swabia, 253 Bear's ears, Siward the bear's son
with, 234 Beardless Man and the Ogres, The,
Greek folktale, 117-9 Beardless person, unlucky to meet
in morning, Cairo, 381 Bear's foot plant in medicine, Devon,
216 Beasts in folklore, see Animals in
folklore Beaver, clan of Wyandot Indians, 192 Bedd Gelert, its Facts, Fairies, a^td
Folklore, by D. E. Jenkins,
reviewed, 423-4 Bedfordshire, see Biddenham Bee, bumble-bee as familiar spirit,
Louth (Lin.), 438 ; first seen killed
and kept in purse, Schleswig-
Ilolstein, 254; form of soul, 235 ;
respected locally, 239 Beetle, respected locally, 239 Belagia, see Gylo Belgium : {^see also Ypern) ; cock
hunted, 250 ; eel caught, 252 ;
glowworm taken for luck, June
24th, 255 Bella Coola Indians, mythology of,
301-4 Benares, meteorite implies anger of
gods, 36 Bengal : {sec also Jaggan-nath ; and
Sitamarhi) ; all stone images of
lilack marble, 34 ; Babel myth,
100 ; swinging rites, 21-2 Beowulf, his adventures ascribed to
Grettir, 406-7 Berkshire, see Hungerford Berlin, cat respected, 239 Berne, first toad seen killed, 254 Bernese Oberland ; Zahler's Die
Krankhcit iin Volksglauben des
Siiiiineiithals reviewed, 201-2 Betasia, sec Gylo Bethel, Jacob at, by A. S. Palmer,
reviewed by A. H. Sayce, 196-8 Betrothal, immortelles given on, Suf- folk, 205 Bhagavadgita, references to Krishna
in, 3 Bhils, ceremonial combats among,
19 Bible ; Sayce's Babylonians and
Assyrians reviewed, 309 ; Ency-
clopivdia Biblica reviewed, 99-101 ;
Palmer'syrtc^/' at Bethel reviewed,
196-8 Bibliography of Anthropology and
Ethnology of Europe, A Selected,
by W. Z. Ripley, reviewed, 3 10- 1 Bibliography, 127-8, 222-4, 351-2,
461-4; to Animal Superstitions
and Totemism by N. W. Thomas,
265-7 ; of French folklore, plan for,
by P. Sebillot, 430-3 ; German
Bibliographies of Folklore, 464 Biddenham, rabbit buried, 245 Big Glaus and Little Glaus type of
folktale, 1 1 7-9 Bihar, ceremonial hunting, 20 ;
water of life can be drawn from
little finger, 433-4 Bijapur, meteorite guards tomb from
lightning. 36 Bingen, badger killed, festival of St.
Roschus, 256
