m of the May, 266

Bringing in Summer, 233, 237, 238, 246 _sqq._

Britomartis and Minos, 73

Brittany, Burial of Shrove Tuesday or of the Carnival in, 229 _sq._

Brockelmann, C., 116

Bronze ploughs used by Etruscans at founding cities, 157

Brother and sister marriages in royal families, 193 _sq._

Buddhist monks, suicide of, 42 _sq._

Budge, E. A. Wallis, 5 _n._3

Buginese of Celebes, their custom of swinging, 277

Bull, Pasiphae and the, 71; as symbol of the sun, 71 _sq._;
  the brazen, of Phalaris, 75;
  said to have guided the Samnites, 186 _n._4

---- and cow, represented by masked actors, 71

Bull-headed image of the sun, 75, 76, 78

Burgebrach in Bavaria, straw-man burnt on Ash Wednesday at, 232

Burial alive of the aged, 11 _sq._;
  in jars, 12 _sq._;
  of infants to secure rebirth, 199 _sq._;
  of Shrove Tuesday, 228

Burning an effigy of the Carnival, 223, 224, 228 _sq._, 229 _sq._, 232
            _sq._

---- effigies of Shrove Tuesday, 227 _sqq._;
  of Winter at Zurich, 260 _sq._

"Burying the Carnival," 209, 220 _sqq._

Busoga, mock human sacrifice in, 215

Cabunian, Mount, 3

Cadiz, custom of swinging at, 284

Cadmea, the, 79

Cadmus, servitude of, for the slaughter of the dragon, 70 _n._1, 78;
  the slayer of the dragon at Thebes, 78 _sq._

---- and Harmonia, their transformation into serpents, 84;
  marriage of, 88, 89

Caffres, the, 65

Caiem, the caliph, 8

Calabria, ceremony of "Sawing the Old Woman" in, 241;
  custom of swinging in, 284

Calendar, the early Greek, determined by astronomical considerations, 68
            _sq._;
  closely bound up with religion, 69;
  the Syro-Macedonian, 116

_Calica Puran_, an Indian law-book, 217

Calicut, rule of succession observed by the kings of, 47 _sqq._, 206

California, Indians of, 62

Cambodia, Kings of Fire and Water in, 14;
  annual abdication of the king of, 148

Canaanites, their custom of burning their children in honour of Baal, 168

Canada, Indians of, their ceremony for mitigating the cold of winter, 259
            _sq._

Caramantran, deat