Aztecs, their festival at end of fifty-two years, i. 310 _sq._; eating the god among the, ii. 86 _sqq._
Baba or Boba, name given to last sheaf, i. 144 _sq._; "the Old Woman," at the Carnival, ii. 332, 333
Baden, harvest customs in, i. 283, 286, 292, 298
Baganda, the, i. 118, ii. 64, 70 _n._ 1, 227, 253, 271 _sq._; their offerings of first-fruits, 113; their fear of the ghosts of animals, 231 _sq._
Bagobos, the, ii. 124; of Mindanao, i. 240
Bahaus or Kayans of central Borneo, i. 92 _sqq._ _See_ Kayans
Bahima, their belief in transmigration, ii. 288
Bakundu of the Cameroons, burial custom of the, ii. 99
Bali, i. 314, ii. 278; rice spirit in, i. 201 _sqq._
Ball, game of, played as a rite, ii. 76, 79
Balquhidder, cutting the Maiden at, i. 157
Bananas, cultivated by women, i. 115, 118; cultivated in South America, 120, 121; cultivated in New Britain, 123; cultivated in New Guinea, 123; soul of dead man in, ii. 298
---- Islands, burial custom in the, ii. 97
Barley awarded as a prize in the Eleusinian games, i. 73, 74, 75; oldest cereal cultivated by the Aryans, 132
---- Bride among the Berbers, i. 178 _sq._
Baronga, the, ii. 280; women's part in agriculture among the, i. 114 _sq._
Basutoland, i. 116; inoculation in, ii. 158, 160
Basutos, the, ii. 148; their customs as to the new corn, 110
Batchelor, Rev. J., ii. 180 _n._ 2, 182 _n._ 2, 183, 184, 186 _n._, 198, 201
Battas or Bataks of Sumatra, i. 196, 315, ii. 293; their ceremonies at catching tigers, 216 _sq._
Bavaria, harvest customs in, i. 147, 221 _sq._, 232, 282, 286, 287, 289, 296, 298, 299
Beans, Spirit of, i. 177; cultivated in Burma, 242; forbidden as food by Empedocles, ii. 301
Bear, importance of the, for people of Siberia, ii. 191; ambiguous attitude of the Aino towards the, 310 _sq._; the corn-spirit as a, 325 _sqq._
---- -festivals of the Aino, ii. 182 _sqq._; of the Gilyaks, 190 _sqq._; of the Goldi, 197; of the Orotchis, 197
Bear's liver, i. 187 _sq._; heart eaten, ii. 146
Bears killed ceremonially by the Aino, ii. 180 _sqq._; souls of dead in, 286 _sq._; processions with, in Europe, 326 _n._ 3
---- slain, propitiated by Kamtchatkans, Ostiaks, Koryak, Finns, and Lapps, ii. 222 _sqq._; by American Indians, 224 _sqq._
Beating a man clad in a cow's hide, ii. 322 _sqq._