Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Bororos of Brazil, 181, 484 |
| Bosnian Turks, 15 |
| Bough, the Golden. See Golden Bough |
| Bouphonia, Athenian sacrifice, 466 |
| Boys, at initiation, 692, 696 |
| Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the Hindoo trinity, 52 |
| Brahmans, 33, 67, 79, 100, 227, 245, 285, 288, 343, 490 |
| Brains of enemies eaten, 498 |
| Branches, used in rain-charm, 63, 64; in exorcism, 197 fatigue and sickness transferred to, 540, 564 |
| Brand, John, 636, 637 |
| Brandy, North American Indian theory of, 496 |
| Bray, Mrs., 446 |
| Brazil, Indians of, 88, 181, 495, 523, 581; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 601 |
| Bread, leavened, Flamen Dialis forbidden to touch, 174; fast from, in mourning for Attis, 350; communion, 481; eaten sacramentally, 488, 498 |
| Bread-fruit, 33 |
| Breath, of chief sacred, 205, 231; caught by his successor, 294 |
| Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit, 101 |
| Breton superstitions as to tides, 35; peasants’ way of getting rain, 76; stories of the external soul, 674; peasants and the mistletoe, 704 |
| Brewing, continence observed at, 219 |
| Bribri Indians, the, 208, 605 |
| Bride, the Whitsuntide, 132, 135; the May, 135; races for a, 156; fishing-net thrown over, 242; of the Nile, 370; name given to last sheaf, 408 |
| Bride and bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, 133; the Midsummer, 133; all knots on their garments unloosed, 241 |
| Bridegroom, the Whitsuntide, 133; of May, 133, 320 |
| Bridget in Scotland and the Isle of Man, 134 |
| Brigit, a Celtic goddess, 135 |
| Brimo and Brimos in the mysteries of Eleusis, 143 |
| British Columbia. See Columbia, British |
| Brittany, belief as to death at ebb-tide in, 35; the Mother-sheaf in Upper, 401; Midsummer fires in, 628; mistletoe as a protection against witchcraft in, 704; fernseed on Midsummer Eve in, 705 |
| Brooke, Rajah, of Sarawak, 89 |
| Brotherhood of the Green Wolf, 628 |
| Brothers, childless persons named after their younger, 248; ancient Egyptian story of the Two, 674 |
| ——and sisters, marriage of, 332 |
| Brothers-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, 250, 251 |
| Brown, Dr. George, 84 |
| Buddha, images of, drenched as a raincharm, 77; the Footprint of, 235 |
| Buddhas, living, 102 |
| Buddhism, 112; and Christianity, 361 |
| Buffalo, sacrificed for human victim, 436; a Batak totem, 691 |
| Buffalo-bull, last sheaf called, 457 |
| Buffaloes, propitiation of dead, 523; the resurrection of, 529; revered by the Todas, 534; as scapegoats, 565 |
| Buginese of Celebes, 33 |
| Building, continence during, 220 |
| Bukaua of New Guinea, 597, 694 |
| Bulgaria, 15; charms in, 30, 31; peasants threaten fruit trees to make them bear, 114; superstitions in, 240; harvest customs in, 405; cure for fever in, 545; needfire in, 640 |
| Bull, in relation to Dionysus, 389, 390; corn-spirit as, 457, 465; at threshing, 458, 459 |
| Bull’s blood, bath of, in rites of Attis, 351 |
| Bull-roarers, 692–695 |
| Bullets, magical treatment of, 19; magical modes of averting, 26 |
| Bullocks as scapegoats, 541 |
| Bulls, sacred, of Ancient Egypt, 476 |
| Bunyoro, king of, 199, 270 |
| Burghers or Badagas. See Badagas. |
| Burglars, charms employed by, 30 |
| Burial customs, 35, 175, 185, 190 |
| Burma, priestly king in, 226, 227; king’s name tabooed in, 257; custom of threshing in, 418; expulsion of demons in, 549 |
| Burne, Miss C. S., 446 |
| Buru, East Indian island, girl sacrificed to crocodile in, 145; eating the soul of the rice in, 482; dog’s flesh eaten in, 496 |
| Burying the Carnival, 301–307 |
| Bush negroes of Surinam, 166, 473 |
| Bushmen of South Africa, 495, 604 |
| Busiris, backbone of Osiris at, 367; ritual of Osiris at, 375; “the house of Osiris,” 443 |
| Busiris, king of Egypt, 443 |
| Butter, time for making, 35 |
| Buzzard, killing the sacred, 499 |
| Byblus, Adonis at, 327; Osiris and Isis at, 364 |
| Cacongo, king of, 199 |
| Cactus, the sacred, 23 |
| Cadiz, death at low tide at, 35 |
| Caesar, Julius, 46, 653 |
| Caffres, the, 222, 235, 247–249, 522; of Sofala, 33; of Natal and Zululand, 483 |
| Cailleach (Old Wife), name given to last corn cut, 403, 409 |
| Cairo, ceremony of cutting the dams at, 370 |
| Cajaboneros Indians, the, 138 |
| Calabar, expulsion of demons at Old, 492, 567; soul of chief in sacred grove at, 681; belief of negroes regarding external souls, 686 |
| Calabashes, souls shut up in, 188 |
| Calabria, Easter custom in, 345; annual expulsion of witches in, 560 |
| Calendar, the ancient Greek, 279; regulation of the early, an affair of religion, 280; the Egyptian, 368; the Alexandrian, 373; of Esne, 373; the Mohammedan, 632 |
| Calf, killed at harvest, 458; mythical, in the corn, 459 |
| Calicut, rule of succession observed by the kings of, 275–277, 296 |