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Rh Nineveh, 218

Norfolk, see Bawburgh; King's Lynn; Norwich; Walpole; and Wells

Nooreli, Australian deity, 355

Normandy, see Rouen; and St. Clair

North: fire-drill or flintstone symbol of, Mexico, 89

North America: (see also Canada; Eskimo; Guatemala; Mexico; United States; and West Indies); names of some totem groups are nicknames, 387-91; north-west, myths of origin of totemism, 355; totems not incarnations of gods, 354

North Arcot: fire-walking, 90

North Pole: polar point the primary fire-stone, Mexico, &c., 89

Northumberland, see Alnwick; Bamburgh; Belford; Chathill; Coquet; Embleton; Farne island; Ford; Hexham; Holy Island; Ilderton; Morpeth; Newminster; Rothbury; Tynemouth; and Whittingham

Northumbria: saints in Nova Legenda Anglie, 215-7

North West Provinces, see Benares; Kharwârs; Marwârîs; Mirzapur; and Shikārpur

Norwich: St. Walstan of Bawburgh, 216; St. William, 217

Nose: omen from itching of, Hebrides, 50

Notes on the Folklore of North Staffordshire, Chiefly Collected at Stone, by W. W. Bladen, reviewed, 106-7

Notes on the Togail Bruidne Dá Derga, by Dr. Stokes, reviewed, 327-30

Nova Legenda Anglie, edit, by C. Horstman, reviewed, 212-7

November, see All Saints' Day; All Souls' Day; and St. Andrews' Eve

Nine: in charm against whooping cough, St. Briavel's, 172

Numbers in folklore: (see also under various numbers, such as Eight); magic squares in Eastern charms, 190; odd number of stems in divining rod, Malays, 145

Nursery rhymes: China, 108-9; Hebrides, 38; St. Briavel's, 177

Nursery tales, see Folktales

Nutt, A.: footnote to More Folklore from the Hebrides, 41; History, Tradition, and Historic Myth, 84-7; reviews by, Dottin's Contes et Legendes d'Irlande, traduits du Gaélique, 220-1; Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne, 333-5; Thurneysen's Sogen aus dem alten Irland, 110-1; short notice by, Hall's King Horn, 111

Nyarongs not true totems, Sarawak, 349-50, 370-2, 376

Oak-tree: appearance of Madonna in, Tuscany, 90-1; saying of, Outer Hebrides, 34

Oaths: (see also Imprecations); among Baloches, 264-5

Oban: cow dung applied to wound, 74

October, see Hallowe'en

Odawara: burial custom, 276-7 (illus.)

Odysseus sagas: bed of Odysseus, 442; fight with Telegonus, 445

Offa's Dyke, called Devil's Dyke, St. Briavel's, 171

Old Twelfth Night: Faröe islands, 185

Olivet, Mount, Antichrist slain on, 129

Omaha Indians: totemism, 367-8

Omar, hell of Larrakia tribe, 18

Omens: from animals, Hebrides, 34, 48-9, 52, St. Briavel's, 171; from apple-tree blooming out of season, Kennet Valley, 423; from birds, Baloches, 264, Hebrides, 36, 48-9, 52, St. Briavel's, 171-2; from birth, Punjab, 64; from dreams, Hebrides, 51-2; from ears, Hebrides, 33, 50; from insects, Hebrides, 50, St. Briavel's, 171; from itching of parts of body, Hebrides, 50; from sneezing, Hebrides, 50; from sower missing "land," Kennet Valley, 423; from spots on nail or tooth, Hebrides, 50; from wind, New Year's Day, Hebrides, 40; of death, Hebrides, 34, 36, 48-9, 51, 61, Kennet Valley, 423, Punjab, 64, St. Briavel's, 17 1-2; of future state of dead, St. Briavel's, 172; of hunting, Baloches, 264; of journey, Baloches, 264; of marriage, St. Briavel's, 171; of recovery of sick, Hebrides, 49; of