Bone of old animal eaten to make the eater old, ii. 143
Bones and skulls of enemies destroyed, ii. 260
---- of animals preserved in order that the animals may come to life again, ii. 256 _sqq._; burned or thrown into water, 257; not to be broken, 258 _sq._; not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, 225, 238 _sqq._, 243, 259
---- of the dead, virtues acquired by contact with the, ii. 153 _sq._; preserved for the resurrection, 259
---- of deer not given to the dogs, ii. 241, 242, 243
---- of fish not burned, ii. 250, 251; thrown into the sea or a river, 250, 254; not to be broken, 255
Borneo, ii. 122; agricultural communities of central, i. 92
Bororos, the, of Brazil, ii. 71 _sq._, 208
Boscana, Father G., ii. 169; quoted, i. 125
Brahmans, the, on transubstantiation, ii. 89
Brain, drippings of, used to acquire wisdom of dead, ii. 163 _sq._
Brazil, Indians of, i. 111, ii. 235; their flesh diet, ii. 139
Bridal pair at rice-harvest in Java, i. 200 _sq._
Bride, name given to last sheaf, i. 162, 163
_Bromios_, epithet of Dionysus, i. 2 _n._ 1
Budge, Dr. E. A. Wallis, i. 259 _n._ 3, 260 _n._ 2
Buffalo sacrificed for human victim, i. 249
Buffaloes, propitiation of dead, ii. 229, 231; their death bewailed, 242; revered by the Todas, 314
Bukaua, the, of German New Guinea, i. 103, 105, 313, ii. 124
Bulgarians, the Carnival among the, ii. 331 _sqq._
Bull, corn-spirit as, i. 288 _sqq._, ii. 8; in relation to Dionysus, i. 16 _sq._, 31
----, live, torn to pieces in rites of Dionysus, i. 15, 17, ii. 16
----, sacrifice of, ii. 68 _n._ 3; at Magnesia, 7 _sq._; in Mithraic religion, 10; at tomb of dead chief, 113
---- -roarers, i. 19 _n._ 1, ii. 295; as magical instruments, i. 104, 106 _sq._, 110
Bulls, sacred, of ancient Egypt, ii. 34 _sqq._
Burial rites intended to deceive ghosts or demons, ii. 97 _sqq._
Burials, fictitious, to divert the attention of demons from the real burials, ii. 98 _sqq._
Burma, ii. 116; securing the rice-soul in, i. 190 _sq._; custom at threshing rice in, 203 _sq._; head-hunting in, i. 256
Bushmen, ii. 29, 206, 266 _n._ 1; their customs as to diet, 140 _sq._
Butterflies, souls of dead in, ii. 290, 291, 296 _sq._
Button snake root, emetic made from, ii. 73, 75
Buzzard, killing the sacred, ii. 169 _sqq._