Balders-brâ, Balder's eyelashes, a name for camomile, xi. 63
Baldness a supposed effect of breaking a taboo, iii. 140
Bâle, statuette of the Mexican god Xipe at, ix. 291 n. 1;
Lenten fire-custom in the canton of, x. 119
Balefires, Balder's, at Midsummer in Sweden, x. 172
Bali, inspired mediums in, i. 378 sq.;
special forms of speech used in addressing social superiors in, i. 402 n.;
the rice personified as husband and wife in, vii. 201 sqq.;
observation of the Pleiades in, vii. 314 sq.;
propitiation of mice to induce them to spare the fields in, viii. 278;