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Index.
Bhavani : worship of, India, 36
Bhil tribe : observance of Dasahra festival, 40
Biddulph, Major J. : account of Dasahra festival, 40
Bihar : observance on last day of the year, 53
Bird : released at Dasahra festival 30 ; worship of, India, 56
Birthmarks : removal of, Scot- land, 93-4
Blackfeet tribe : cruel treatment of by Assiniboins, 21
Blood : sacrifice, a form of expiation, India, 43 ; of vic- tims, rubbed on the forehead, India, 44 ; a protective against evil spirits, India, 45
Bone : use of in amulets, 404-5
Bonfires : lit on gth Novemljer, Worcestershire, 96
Bonjour : a salutation in Guern- sey, 201
Booths : festival rites performed in, 56
Borneo : savage groups in, 19
Bottles : used as amulets, 412
Boulogne : wax figure offered at, 92
Boya tribe : annual hunt, 54
Brahmans : Palewal, horse-bridle worship, 30 ; observance of Dasahra festival, 36-7
Brand Conamittee : catalogue of materials collected by, 355-88
Brer Rabbit : in African folk- lore, 60
" Bringing in the Fly," 400-3
Brittany : the Listener to the Dead, 93
Bromsgrove Fair : sayings about,
97 Brown, G. : Some Nature Myths
from Samoa, 172-81 Browne, Miss F. : Roumanian
Folk Tales, 389-400 Buckinghamshire : site of the
battle of Waterloo, 154 Buddhist festival : survival of,
India, 36 Bulford : Water Stone, legend
of, 167 Bumble bee : brings luck,
Gloucestershire, 210 Burial face downwards : Surrey, 161 Burma, Akha tribe : marriage
customs, 343 Burn, R. : baptism folklore, 213
Burne, Miss C. S. : reviews by — E. W. Swanton, P. Woods, Bygone Haslemere, 106 ; Sir J. Wilson, Lowland Scotch as spoken in Sirathearn District, 335-6 ; her work on the Brand Committee, 359
Butterfly : white, lucky to catch and feed ; coloured, malign, 402-3
Bynion Stone : legend of, 169
Caesar's Hill, Surrey, 161
Cambodia : services rendered by betrothed youths, 343
Camel, the : backbone of used as a charm, Berbers, 235
Cannibalism : West Indies, 261
Canoe-shaped coffins for removal of dead, Indonesia, 141
Capture marriage : Rome, 343
Carnelian beads used as amulets, 233-4, 406
Castle : legend of, Buckingham- shire, 154
Cat : held sacred by Moham- madans, 75-6 ; Ginnees assum- ing shape of, Egypt, 250
Cave : interment in, Indonesia, 149 ; superstition regarding, Sussex, 162
Chameleons and the jenoun, Ber- bers, 251
Chamunda : worship of, India, 32
Changeling : changed by fairies, Scotland, 93
Cheyennes : generosity towards enemies, 21-2
Chiastolite stone : used in amulets, 408
Children : beginning studies, rite of tonsure, 49-50 ; songs of, Durham, Shropshire, 155, 160 ; tickling of, Gloucestershire, 210
Cliina, North : surgical operations, 92
Chivalry in warfare, 21
Cholera ; caused by the jenoun, Berbers, 245
Christianity : its effect on savage mentality, 124
Christmas Day : new clothes to be worn, 97 ; Eve, bees singing on, Worcestershire, 97
Church : building legend, North- amptonshire, 158 ; encircled by children at Cradley, 95-6
