Birds, creation of, in Apache myth, [27]

Birth. See Childbirth

Black Cloud of Navaho myth, [91], [96], [97]
See Clouds

Black Fog. See Ádĭlhkĭh

Black God, the Navaho Fire God, [103]-104

Black Man. See Haschí̆n Dí̆lhĭli

Black river, Arizona, [17]

Blankets in Navaho mythology, [94], [95]
medicine-men compensated with, [125]
of the Navaho, [74]-75, [136]
used in marriage settlement, [133]

Blindness, fear of, by initiates, [120]
from looking upon mother-in-law, [126]

Blowing to expel spirits, [48]