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Index.
Blue ; beads to avert Evil Eye, lo, in divination, l6 ; bows of Yorkshire bride, 126 ; garters of English bride, reason for, 128
Boat to fetch souls, Haidah belief and parallels, 272
Bone-throwing at feasts, 119
Bones, as charms, 10, 12
Boo-err-go-en, Australian divinity,
307
Books presented to Folk-Lore So- ciety, I, 2, 135, 157, 193 ; pub- lished, by Folk-Lore Society, 23
Boonoorong tribe of Australia. divinity of, 296
Bora, or initiation ceremonies of Australian aborigines, 300
Borrowed clothing used by brides, 128
Bouphonia, the, 178
Bourges, attempt to exercise "jus primce noctis " at, 367
Bowen, H. C, Lincoln Minster and the Devil, 364
Brahman mnemonic feats 180; rain ceremonies, 277-279
Brahmanism and caste in India, 168
Bread, sacredness of, loaf-kissing in Catania, 258 ; crumbs placed on the head, Albania, 344 ; and dough, in Syrian folklore. 5, 16, 17, 18
Breton origin of Arthurian romances, 271
Bridal veil {see also Marriage dress. Presents, etc.), underlying idea of, 125 ; English use of, 126
Bride, chosen by husband's father, Homeric customs and parallels, 112; duties of, in preparation for marriage, various countries, 127- 129; effect of Evil Eye on, 128; part in Indian marriage ceremonies, 145-153 ; native ideal of, 155 ; various ways of gaining, 1 00, 104, 106, 107, III, 112, 132
Bridegroom, Majhwar, dressed in white, 125 ; Punjabi, native ideal of, 153
Bridge, the, in Gawain tale, and parallels, 268-271
Briseis, 104
Britain, see England, Scotland and Wales, Life in Early Britain, and Presidential Address
British Church, scanty records of, 77
British and Gaelic folklore, resem- blances o.f, 271
Brittany, soul-ferrying from, 272;
Upper, female monoliths in, 184;
legendary tales of, 78 Britten, James, his charges against
the Society refuted by E. S.
Hartland and A. Nutt, 362-363 " Brittia," an abode of souls, 272 Broadwood, Lucy E., Pins and Metal
in Wells, 368 Brochs, connected with fairies, dan- ger of meddling with, 280 Brogan, Australian comrade of initia- tion, 309 Brora, rain-producing at, 278 Brosinga-mene, the necklace of
Freya, 365 Brownies, Danish folklore. 213, 215 Bruges, Holy Blood at, 360 Brythonic literature, 41 ; its area,
46 Bulgaria, folklore of, catch-words
from. 261 ; legend of St. John
Chrysostom, 83 Bull's blood in chastity test, 130 Bunjil, or Pundjel, Australian
divinity, Kulin tribe, 303-305,
312 Burambin, son of Baiame, Australian
divinity, 302 Burbung, the mysteries of the
^Viradthuri, Australia, 299 Burma, belief in power of nats in,
333
Burning dead man s goods, reason for, 115, 117, 118; effig)' of medical officer of health at ^Iaid- stone, 256 ; figure of Black Lad at Ashton-under-Lyne, 3S1 ; of Judas Iscariot, 284
Bushmen, myth among but no ritual, 160
Butter, bewitched, charm for, 285
Caithness, Druid stones in, 87 Cakes, Easter cake, Calymnos. 2 Calabria, folklore of, magic dresses,
129 Calymnos, Easter cake from, 2 Calypso, 120 Cambyses' wives takes by Smerdis,
116 Cape Malea, 175 Captured girls taken for concubines,
104 Cardevyle, port of, 266 Carmal, Mound of the Priests at,
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