Bedouins, annual festival of the Sinaitic, [97]
Behar, custom of swinging in, [279]
Beheading the King, a Whitsuntide pageant in Bohemia, [209] sq.
Bengal, kings of, their rule of succession, [51]
Bengkali, East Indian island, [277]
Benin, king of, represented with panther's whiskers, [85] sq.;
human sacrifices at the burial of a king of, [139] sq.
Berosus, Babylonian historian, [113]
Berry, ceremony of “Sawing the Old Woman” in, [241] sq.
Bhagats, mock human sacrifices among the, [217] sq.