Backache at reaping, leaps over the Midsummer bonfire thought to be a preventive of, x. 165, 168, 189, 344 sq.;
set down to witchcraft, x. 343 n., 345;
at harvest, mugwort a protection against, xi. 59;
creeping through a holed stone to prevent backache at harvest, xi. 189
Backbone of Osiris represented by the ded pillar, vi. 108 sq.
Bacon, Francis, on anointing weapon that caused wound, i. 202
Bad Country, the, in Victoria, ceremonies observed at entering, iii. 109 sq.
Badache, double-axe, Midsummer King of the, x. 194
Badagas, the, of the Neilgherry Hills, their customs as to sowing and reaping the first grain, viii. 55;