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Frazer, James George
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