“Badgnak.”
The oak tree used at Christmas by the Serbians, 47

“Badgni Dan.”
Serbian equivalent for Christmas Eve, 46

Bajazet.
Son of Sultan Amourath, 7

Balcius.
Latinized form of Baux, in early records, 119;
name changed at the Court at Naples into Balza, 119

Balkan Peninsula.
Incursion of the Serbians into, 1

Balkan Territories.
Kingdoms embraced in, 1

Balkan War.
Mrs. C. H. Farnam’s devotion to the wounded during the, 57, 58;
reference to the feats of arms performed by the Serbians during the, 175

Balkans.
Hero tales of the, express the ideals which have inspired the Serbian race, 12;
explanation of the decay of the ancient aristocracy throughout the, 14

“Balkans, the Empress of the.”
Drama by King Nicholas I Petrovitch of Montenegro, 134

Ballad-s.
Serbian bards improvise, to record deeds of King Nicholas I Petrovitch of Montenegro, 120;
“The Marriage of Maximus Tzrnoyevitch,” the finest and most famous Serbian, 134;
usual ending to ballads by Serbian and Montenegrin bards, 184;
historical note on that of “King Voukashin’s Marriage,” 193, 194;
observation regarding motif of “The Captivity and Marriage of Stephan Kakshitch,” 194;
“The Saints Divide the Treasures,” 195–197;
three Serbian—(1) “The Building of “Skadar” (Scutari), etc., 198; (2) “The Stepsisters,” 206; and (3) “The Abduction of the Beautiful Iconia,” 210

Balshitch.
Nicholas I Petrovitch, King of Montenegro, and an indirect descendant out of, 120

Balza.
Italianized form of Balcius (Baux), 119

Ban.
The original title of the rulers of Bosnia, 6

Banat.
One of the Serbian provinces in Austria-Hungary

Banovitch Strahinya.
The ballad relating to, one of the finest composed by anonymous bards of Middle Ages, 119;
historical data, 119, 120;
some Serbian historians believe identical with the glorious Strashimir Balshitch-Nemanyitch, 119;
eulogized as “a falcon without equal,” 120;
Dyogo the faithful steed of, 120;
Caraman the faithful greyhound of, 120;
visits Youg Bogdan, 120–121

Banyska (Lord of Little).
Title by which a dervish hails Banovitch Strahinya, 122

Bards.
(1) Serbian. Attention now turned to the exploits of modern heroes at Monastir, Koumanovo, Perlep (Prilip), Scutari (Skadar), etc., 176; usual ending to ballads of, 184; word ‘book’ invariably used by those of fourteenth century when speaking of a letter, 186.
(2) Montenegrin. Stereotyped ending to ballads of, 184

Bash Tchelik (Real Steel).
A Serbian folk-tale, 247–267;
his promise of three lives to the Prince, and his abduction of his deliverer’s wife, 258–267

Basil I, Emperor.
The second conversion of Southern Slavs to Christianity was effected by, 28

Batchka.
One of the Serbian provinces in Austria-Hungary

Baux, Des.
Strashimir Balshitch-Nemanyitch a descendant of the old Provençal family of, 119;
in early records the name is latinized Balcius, 119;
supposition that the Italianized Seigneurs des Baux, who married into royal house of Nemanyitch and who settled in Serbian lands, further changed their patronymic to Balsha or Balshitch, 119

Baux, Hughes de.
A French knight; reference to, 33

Bazar, Relya of.
A Serbian knight;
Bogdan the Bully and, 87–89

Beardless.
A name used as the personification of craftiness and sharpness, applied to man in Serbian folk-tale “Lying for a Wager,” 283

Beata Maria.
St. Elias inquires the reason of her great grief, 195;
St. Elias comforts, 196

Bedevia.
The Moorish chieftain’s mare, 79;
Sharatz and, 79, 80, 81;
Bogdan the Bully’s mare, 87;
name of mare given by Ivan Tzrnoyevitch to Milosh Obrenbegovitch, 141;
Voïvode Balatchko’s mare, 168

Belgrade.
Reference to the triumphal return of the Serbian army to, at the conclusion of the Balkan campaigns, 1912–13, 176;
a veela warns Stephan and Demitrius Yakshitch of the intention of the Turks to assail, 177;
Stephan Yakshitch and Haykoona escape to, 183

Beliefs.
Superstitions of Serbians, and national customs, 13–53

Berlin.
Famous Treaty of, acknowledged the independence of Serbia during rule of Milan, 10, 11;
mention of a Veele ring in Treaty of, 17

Bertrandon de la Broquière, Chevalier.
Told in 1433 that Trajanople had been built by the Emperor Trajan, 27

Bind.
Illyrian god;
a reminder of, in the tradition regarding Prince Ivan Tzrnoyevitch, 25

“Bird Maiden, The.”
A Serbian folk-tale, 280–283

“Biter Bit, The.”
A Serbian folk-tale, 328–340;
the hundred daughters in, 330;
the wedding procession, 333;
the Black Giant in, 334;
the old woman meets the old man in a forest by the river Luckless, 336;
the Black Giant buys the cow, 339

Blind.
In Serbian Hungary there are schools for, in which national ballads are taught, 55, 56

“Bochtchaluks.”
Serbian equivalent for wedding presents, 32

Bodin, King.
Son of Michaylo;
obtains title from Pope Gregory VII, 3;
restores the Serbia of Tchaslav, and adds Bosnia to his State, 3

Bogdan the Bully.
Marko and, 87–89

Bogdan, Youg.
Aged father-in-law of Banovitch, 120, 121;
castle in Kroushevatz the residence of, 120;
one of his sons-in-law a direct descendant of King Nemanya, 120;
Strahinya returns to, after his slaying of Vlah-Ali, 128

Bogoumils.
Protestants of the Greek Orthodox Church who settled in Bosnia, 4

“Bojitch.”
Equivalent, “the little God.” The Christmas Day church service, 49

Boshko Yougovitch.
One of Tsarina Militza’s nine brothers, 170;
refuses to remain with her while Tsar Lazarus departs to battlefield of Kossovo, 171

Boshnyaks.
Serbians inhabiting Bosnia;
considered to be the most typical Serbians, 13

Bosnia.
King Bodin adds to his State, 3;
Ban Koulin placed on the throne of, 4;
Stevan Tomashevitch king of, 8;
subjugation of, complete by 1463, 8;
the Padishah offers to make Stephan Yakshitch Grand Vizier of, if he will renounce the Holy Cross, 179

Bosnia and Herzegovina.
One of the kingdoms in the Balkan territories, 1;
Serbian calamity on Kossovo due mainly to the disobedience of the Serbian lords who ruled over, 175

Bowring, Sir John.
Quotations of three poems from his Servian Popular Poetry, 198–212

Boyana.
River on which Skadar’s fortress stands, 186, 198

Brankovitch, Dyourady.
Nephew of Vook Brankovitch, 7;
reference to death of, 8

Brankovitch, Vook (Wolf).
The treachery of, against Knez Lazar, 7;
his death, 7;
Tsarina Militza and death of, 173;
responsibility for great calamity to the Serbian army on Kossovo assigned by bards to, 174

Bregalnitza.
Reference to, as a set-off to Slivnitza, 176

Bregovo.
Town of;
Marko and Milosh at, 105

Bride.
The custom with the Serbians for one of her brothers to present the bride to her wooer, 248

Bulgaria.
A province of Serbia under Stevan Detchanski, 5;
war against, by Serbia, 11;
Shishman king of, 94

Bulgars.
Serbians an easy prey to attacks of, 2

Bully, The.
Alternative for Bogdan, 87–89;
Albanian equivalent, Kessedjiya, 108;
his death on the top of Katchanik mountain, 114

Byzantines.
Serbians an easy prey to attack of, 2;
Christianity deeply rooted in the, 14;
Peroon, the Russian God of Thunder, concluded with the, 15

Byzantine Empire.
Incorporates Bulgaria and overpowers Rashka, 3;
Doushan the Powerful subdues almost the whole of the, 5;
Prince Ourosh endeavours to negotiate an alliance between Serbs and French for overthrow of, 119