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Birth customs and beliefs : (see also Twins) ; babies come from wells, Germany &c., 267-9, 280 ; barren- ness cured by bathing, Algeria, 271, Palestine, 55, or resort to caves, Palestine, 69, or water, Greece &c., 271, 280, and due to omission of sacrifice &c. on build- ing house, Palestine, 59 ; Brahman does not eat in house of lying-in woman, India, 404 ; burning peat between young animal and mother, Braemar, 85 ; caul as amulet, Greek islands, 330 ; charm to encourage milk, Greek islands, 330 ; honey &c. dropped into child's mouth, Bombay, 272 ; infant not taken from cradle for certain days, Sierra Leone, 86 ; pregnant woman goes out armed at night. Sierra Leone, 87 ; sacrifices at birth, Palestine, 65 ; souls of unborn contained in birds of mother's birth tree, Malay tribes, 455 ; stillborn can be made to live, Bohemia, 270-1 ; well cere- mony, India, 272
Birth goddess : Iran, 270 ; Mexico, 270
Blai of Ulster, 229
Blake, T. P. U. : Matrimonial Cus- toms in the West of Ireland, 77-82
Blathnat, wife of king Curoi, 143, 148
Bleheris the Welshman, 284-8, 292-3, 298, 300, 302-3
Blood : of conger cures baldness, Greek islands, 330 ; drawing implies betrothal, Ireland, 448 ; drops in Grail romances, 287, 289, 298-9, 303 ; in folktale, Wales, 448 ; marked near house entrance, Pales- tine, 67 ; in marriage customs and beliefs, Brittany, 448, Ireland, 448 ; in purification from murder, 223 ; sprinkled on new house, Palestine, 58 ; staunched by hymns as charms, Connaught, 348
Blue : amulets against evil eye, Pales- tine, 70
Boar, see Pig
Boas, Prof' F. : Obituary (W. W. Newell), 209-1 1
Boat : tabooed during catamenia, Greek islands, 330
Boddurayi or navel stone, India, 334
Boeotia, see Helicon
Bogos : son fasts after father's death, 398
Bohemia : babies from wells, 268, take form of frogs, 268 ; folktales, 192-3 ; still-born can be made to live, 270-1 ; unbaptized child brings bad luck, 261
Bombay : birth ceremonies, Deshasht Brahmans, 272
Bombay Presidency, see Bombay ; Dharwar district ; and Kanara
Bombe tribes : fumigating infants, 267
Bonfires, see Fire
Book of Fermoy, The, 143
Books presented to Folk-Lore Society, 2-3, 8, 212, 252, 362
Borneo, see Dyaks
Bouches-du-Rh6ne, see Marseilles
Boudroum : charm to protect animals, 331 ; giving dough endangers ani- mals, 331
Bow of Siva, 333
Bower, H. M. : Folk-Song Refrain,
449
Boys, see Man
Brabant, North, see Tilburg
Braemar : circuiting fields with torches, Hallowe'en, 85
Brahmanism : Brahmins, see India ; fasts in, 418, associated with gifts and sacrifice, 420
Bran, King, see King Bran
Bran the Blessed, 131
Bran the voyager, 34, 49, 153, 157-9
Bran or Balan as king of Hades, 140
Brandenburg : nicker brings change- lings, 274
Brazil, see Paressi
Bread : as amulet, Greek islands, 330
Breaking the Bough in the Grove of Diana, by A. Lang, 89-91
Brehus-sans-pitie, 51-3
Brendan legend, 154, 157-8, 161-3
Brer Rabbit stories, parallels with, 17
Bress, chief of Fomore, 139
Bretagne : {see also Audierne, Bay of; and Is) ; Breton anaoun not Welsh annwn, 151 ; A Brittany Marriage Custom, by F. C. Conybeare and E. S. Hartland, 448-9 ; chief seat of " lavandieres de nuit," ill
Brewing : sacrifice to brownie, Shet- lands, 440
Bridal customs and beliefs, see Marri- age customs and beliefs
Brigit, St., see St. Brigit
Britain : {see also England ; Scotland ; a«(f Wales) ; no trace of God mallet, 137
