Lenten fire custom in, x. 115;
Midsummer fires in, x. 189;
the Yule log in, x. 251 sq.;
four-leaved clover at Midsummer in, xi. 63
Bertat, a people on the Blue Nile, their orgiastic annual festivals, iv. 16 n. 2
Berwickshire, kirn-dollies of last corn at harvest in, vii. 153 sq.
Bes, grotesque Egyptian god, ii. 133, v. 118 n. 1
Besbau, near Luckau, races after harvest at, vii. 76
Besisis of the Malay Peninsula, their dread of noon, iii. 87;
their carnival at rice-harvest, ix. 226 n. 1