Beardless.
A name used as the personification of craftiness and sharpness, applied to man in Serbian folk-tale “Lying for a Wager,” [283]
Beata Maria.
St. Elias inquires the reason of her great grief, [195];
St. Elias comforts, [196]
Bedevia.
The Moorish chieftain’s mare, [79];
Sharatz and, [79], [80], [81];
Bogdan the Bully’s mare, [87];
name of mare given by Ivan Tzrnoyevitch to Milosh Obrenbegovitch, [141];
Voïvode Balatchko’s mare, [168]
Belgrade.
Reference to the triumphal return of the Serbian army to, at the conclusion of the Balkan campaigns, 1912–13, [176];
a veela warns Stephan and Demitrius Yakshitch of the intention of the Turks to assail, [177];
Stephan Yakshitch and Haykoona escape to, [183]
Beliefs.
Superstitions of Serbians, and national customs, [13]–53
Berlin.
Famous Treaty of, acknowledged the independence of Serbia during rule of Milan, [10], [11];
mention of a Veele ring in Treaty of, [17]
Bertrandon de la Broquière, Chevalier.
Told in 1433 that Trajanople had been built by the Emperor Trajan, [27]
Bind.
Illyrian god;
a reminder of, in the tradition regarding Prince Ivan Tzrnoyevitch, [25]
“Bird Maiden, The.”
A Serbian folk-tale, [280]–283
“Biter Bit, The.”
A Serbian folk-tale, [328]–340;
the hundred daughters in, [330];
the wedding procession, [333];
the Black Giant in, [334];
the old woman meets the old man in a forest by the river Luckless, [336];
the Black Giant buys the cow, [339]