the sound of bull-roarers thought to imitate, [228] sqq.
See also [Lightning]
Thunder and lightning, the Yule log a protection against, i. 248, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254, 258, 264;
bonfires a protection against, 344;
smoke of Midsummer herbs a protection against, ii. [48];
vervain a protection against, [62];
name given to bull-roarers, [231] sq.
—— and the oak, the Aryan god of the, i. 265
“—— -besom,” name applied to mistletoe and other bushy excrescences on trees, ii. [85], [301];
a protection against thunderbolts, [85]