Beheading the King, a Whitsuntide pageant in Bohemia, iv. 209 sq.
—— Whitsuntide mummers, pretence of, iv. 206 sqq.
Beifuss, German name for mugwort, xi. 60 n. 6
Bekes, in Hungary, mode of fertilizing women in, ix. 264
Beku, dwarf tribe of West Africa, their magical ointment for acquiring the power of the dead, viii. 163 sq.
Bel or Marduk, a Babylonian deity, v. 71;
his human wife, ii. 129 sq.;
identified with Zeus, ix. 389;
created the world by cleaving the monster Tiamat in two, ix. 410;
the fires of, x. 147, 157, 158 sq.