Brest, Midsummer fire-custom at, x. 184

Bret Harte, Relieving Guard, iv. 66 n. 4;

on the Spanish missions in California, viii. 171 n. 1

Breteuil, canton of, Midsummer fires in the, x. 187

Brethren of the Free Spirit, i. 408

—— of the Ploughed Fields (Fratres Arvales), a Roman college of priests, ii. 122, vi. 239, ix. 232.

See also [Arval Brothers]

Breton belief that women can be impregnated by the moon, x. 76

—— peasants, their way of getting rain, i. 306 sq.;

throw knives at the wind, i. 329