Besoms placed crosswise at doors of cattle-stalls as a protection against witches, ii. 127
——, burning, hurled against witches, ix. 162;
flung aloft to make the corn grow high, x. 340;
used to drive away witches, xi. 74
Bessy, one of the mummers on Plough Monday, viii. 329, 331
Bethlehem, worship of Adonis at, v. 257 sqq.;
fertility of the neighbourhood of, v. 257 n. 3;
the Star of, v. 259, ix. 330;
new Easter fire carried to, x. 130 n.
Betimor, woman turned into crocodile, viii. 212