Ba-Thonga, the, 141, 154, 163, 202

Battas or Bataks of Sumatra, 34, 45, 46, 65, 116, 296

Bavili, the, 78

Bawenda, the, 243

Bayazid, the Sultan, and his soul, 50

Beans, prohibition to touch or name, 13 sq.

Bear, the polar, taboos concerning, 209;

customs observed by Lapps after killing a, 221

Bears not to be called by their proper names, 397 sq., 399, 402

Bechuanas, purification of manslayers among the, 172 sq., 174

Bed, feet of, smeared with mud, 14;

prohibition to sleep in a, 194

Beef and milk not to be eaten at the same meal, 292

Beer, continence observed at brewing, 200

Bells as talismans, 235

Benin, kings of, 123, 243

Bentley, R., 33 n.3

Besisis, the, 87

Beveridge, P., 363 sq.

Bird, soul conceived as a, 33 sqq.

Birds, ghosts of slain as, 177 sq.;

cause headache through clipped hair, 270 sq., 282

Birth from a golden image, pretence of, 113;

premature, 213. See Miscarriage

Bismarck Archipelago, 128

Bites of ants used as purificatory ceremony, 105

Blackening faces of warriors, 163;

of manslayers, 169, 178, 181

Blackfoot Indians, 159 n.

Black Mountain of southern France, 42

—— ox or black ram in magic, 154

Bladders, annual festival of, among the Esquimaux, 206 sq., 228

“Blessers” or sacred kings, 125 n.

Blood put on doorposts, 15;

of slain, supposed effect of it on the slayer, 169;

smeared on person as a purification, 104, 115, 219;

drawn from bodies of manslayers, 176, 180;

tabooed, 239 sqq.;

not eaten, 240 sq.;

soul in the, 240, 241, 247, 250;

of game poured out, 241;

royal, not to be shed on the ground, 241 sqq.;

unwillingness to shed, 243, 246 sq.;

received on bodies of kinsfolk, 244 sq.;

drops of, effaced, 245 sq.;

horror of, 245;

of chief sacred, 248;

of women, dread of, 250 sq.

—— of childbirth, supposed dangerous infection of, 152 sqq.;

received on heads of friends or slaves, 245

—— -lickers, 246

Blowing upon knots, as a charm, 302, 304

Boa-constrictor, purification of man who has killed a, 221 sq.

Boars, wild, not to be called by their proper names, 411, 415

Boas, Dr. Franz, 210 sqq., 214

Bodia or Bodio, a West African pontiff or fetish king, 14 sq., 23

Bodies, souls transferred to other, 49

Bodos, the, of Assam, 285

Boiled flesh tabooed, 185

Bolang Mongondo, a district in Celebes, 53, 279, 341

Bonds, no man in bonds allowed in priest's house, 14

Bones of human bodies which have been eaten, special treatment of, 189 sq.;

of the dead, their treatment after the decay of the flesh, 372 n.5;

of dead disinterred and scraped, 373 n.

Boobies, the, 8 sq.

Born again, pretence of being, 113

Bornu, Sultan of, 120

Bororos, the, 34, 36

Bourke, Captain J. G., 184

Box, strayed soul caught in, 45, 70, 76

Bracelets as amulets, 315

Brahman student, his cut hair and nails, 277

Brahmans, their common and secret names, 322

Branches used in exorcism, 109

Breath of chief sacred, 136, 256

Breathing on a person as a mode of purification, 149

Brewing, continence observed at, 200, 201 sq.

Bribri Indians, their ideas as to the uncleanness of women, 147, 149

Bride and bridegrooms, all knots on their garments unloosed, 299 sq.

Bronze employed in expiatory rites, 226 n.6;

priests to be shaved with, 226

—— knife to cut priest's hair, 14

Brother and sister not allowed to mention each other's names, 344

Brothers-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, 338, 342, 343, 344, 345

Buddha, Footprint of, 275

Building shadows into foundations, 89 sq.

Bukuru, unclean, 147

Bulgarian building custom, 89

Burghead, 230

Burial under a running stream, 15

—— customs to prevent the escape of the soul, 51, 52

Burials, customs as to shadows at, 80 sq.

Burma, kings of, 375

Burmese conception of the soul as a butterfly, 51 sq.

Burning cut hair and nails to prevent them being used in sorcery, 281 sqq.

Buryat shaman, his mode of recovering lost souls, 56 sq.

Butterfly, the soul as a, 29 n.1, 51 sq.

Cacongo, King of, 115, 118

Caffre customs at circumcision, 156 sq.

Caffres, “women's speech” among the, 335 sq.

Calabar, fetish king at, 22 sq.

Calabashes, souls shut up in, 72

Calchaquis Indians, 31

Californian Indians, 352

Cambodia, kings of, 376

Camden, W., 68

Campbell, J., 384

Camphor, special language employed by searchers for, 405 sqq.

Canelos Indians, 97

Cannibalism at hair-cutting, 264

Cannibals, taboos imposed on, among the Kwakiutl, 188 sqq.

Canoe, fish offered to, 195

Canoes, continence observed at building, 202