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Birds in folklore: {see also Blackbird; Cock ; Cormorant ; Crossbill ; Crane ; Crow ; Cuckoo ; Dove ; Duck ; Eagle ; Eaglehawk ; Fowl ; Goatsucker : Goose ; Gull ; Hawk ; Hen ; Jackdaw ; Kingfisher ; Kite: Lark ; Magpie ; Mallard ; Owl ; Partridge ; Peewit ; Pigeon ; Poul- try ; Quail ; Raven ; Redstart ; Robin ; Rook ; Sea-swallow : Spar- row ; Stork ; Swallow ; Swan ; Swift ; Tit ; Wagtail ; Woodpecker ; Wren; Wildfowl; Yellowhammer) ; kept for divination, 244 ; Malay fowling charms, 308 ; in Marathi folktales, 99 ; sacrificed to Woden, 84-5 ; songbirds tabooed in Ger- many, 243
Birth customs and beliefs : {see also Child-stealing Witch) ; animals who bring babies, 235 : Arunta tribe, C. Australia, 65-6 ; bath heated by red-hot poker or cinders, 105-6 ; Cairo, 381 ; Calymnos, 221 ; Chinese, 8 ; couvade among Malays, 307; Hebrides, 445; India, 8 ; Korea, 330, 332 ; Lancashire, 106 ; marchen concerning, 233-4 ; non-natural, 7-9, 335, 339; won- drous, of Krishna, 7
Bishopsteignton, women changelings, 213
Black animals, see Bear ; Cock ; Hen ; Horse ; Ox
Black, as sacred or ev'il colour, 28-37
Blackbird in pie, Cornwall, Twelfth Day, 259 ; respected locally, 239 ; sacrificed, 254
Black stones, worship of, 33-7
Blairgowrie, fairy blacksmiths {ill.), 211
Bleeding, charms for, Devon, 217
Blind man's buff, 261-4
Blood, drawn to cure witchcraft, Dorset, 109, iii ; savage horror of, discussed by R. R. Marett, 180 ; used to redden runes on charmed log, Grettis Saga, 412 ; Strack's Bbit i/ii Glanbeii und Aherglauben der Menschheit reviewed, 403
" Bloodeagle" custom, 85
Blue, as sacred colour, 28-9
Bluebeard, a Coutribuiion to History and Folklore, by T. Wilson, re- viewed, 317
Bbit im Glauben und Aberglauben der Menschheit, Das, by L. H.
Strack, reviewed by E. S. Hartland,
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Boar, carried in procession, 258 ; sacrificed to Frey, 84 ; tusked king of Powis, 234
Boarhound, sec Dog
Boas, Dr. Franz, on north-western tribes of Canada, 58-64, 67-9, 301-4
Boat, enchanted golden, Karnak, 386
Boatmen's songs on Nile-boats, 385
Bohemia : {see also Liepa Kermiss ; Metschin ; Pecek ; Prague ; and Schonhirde) ; cat buried, 245 ; crossbill respected, 240 ; crow and kite as child-bringers, 235 ; frog sacrificed. May King ceremony, 253 ; mouse and kingfisher kept captive for luck, 244 ; pigeon, redstart, and snake respected, 241 ; yellowhammer killed, 256
Bolivia, swinging rites on All Soul's Day, 25
Bombay : {see also Ahmadnagar ; Deccan ; and Yellama's Hill) ; black images common, 34
Bones of dead brother made into arrows. Leper's Island, 179
Books presented to Folk-Lore Society, 39-40, 42, 55, 183, 226, 353 ; suggested legacy to Folk- Lore Society, 437
Bordona, see Gylo
Borgue, Scotland, crow and cuckoo respected, 240
Borneo, charm to protect fruit-trees, 174-5 ' horns as gable ornaments, 322 ; tiger-cat skin worn for luck, 177
Bottle imp type of folktale, 374-6
Bow, musical, 97-8
Brahmanism, and Alexandrian Chris- tianity, 4 ; development of, 3, 404 ; in Malabar, 399
Braitmaier, M., Feathers and Rain, 437 ; drawings by, 323, 437
Braj, Krishna steals bathers' clothes, 16-7 ; Krishna's amours, 25
Bramble, in Greek charm, 143
Brandenburg : {see also Attendorf ; Berlin ; Crossen ; Guben ; Jliter- bock ; Lubbenau ; and Zielensig) ; toad transfixed on dunghill, 255
Bread, and salt frees haunted house, Cairo, 389 ; baked on Good Friday, Dorset, 112; if crumb
