Balthasar, one of the three mythical kings on Twelfth Day, ix. 329 sqq.
Balum, a mythical being of German New Guinea, iii. 306
Balum, spirits, vii. 104, ix. 83, xi. 242
Balwe in Westphalia, Burying the Carnival at, iv. 232
Bâm-Margi, Hindoo sect, their use of magical images, i. 65
Bambaras of the Niger, their sacred trees, ii. 42
Bamboo-rat sacrificed for riddance of evils, ix. 208 sq.
Bampton-in-the-Bush in Oxfordshire, May garlands at, ii. 62
Banana, women impregnated by the flower of the, v. 93;