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Index.

Natchez Indians : fasting, ceremonial,

392

Natives of Australia, by N. W. Thomas, reviewed, 105-6

Natives, The, of British Central Africa, by Miss A. Werner, re- viewed, 243-5

Native Tribes of South-East Australia, by A. W. Howitt and A. Lang, 91-3, review, 102, by A. W. Howitt, 166-86

Navel stone worshipped, May, India,

334 Nayadis: mourning customs, 397, 401 Nebraska, see Fox Indians ; and Sac

Indians Neby Moussa, grave of Moses, 72 Necklaces : amuletic, Servia, 426 Nede the bard, 133 Needle : run into sole of corpse, Jut-

lan.i, 366, 368 Neilgherries, see Nilgiri Hills Nemi, wood of : not entered by horse,

53 ; rex Nemorensis, 52-3, 89-91 Nerakini : rainfall prophecy, 334 Newell, W. W. : obituary of, 209-11 ;

vote of condolence, 251 New Forest : corp creagh, 67 New Guinea : {see also Murray island ;

Noeforese ; and Papuans) ; coil

ornaments, 219; Some Notes from

New Guinea, by Dr. C. G. Selig-

mann, 251 ; string games, 114 New South Wales, see Barrier Range New Zealand, see Maoris Nias : All Father belief, 468 Nicker, water spirit, Brandenburg, 274 Nicobar islands, see Kar Nicobarese Nicodemus, legends of, 302-3 Nierstein : babies from lime-tree, 268 Nigeria : sanctuary bush, 90-1 Night : placed before day in reckoning

time, Gauls &c., 136, 141 ; suicides

buried at, Scandinavia, 370 ;

sweepings not thrown out at, Greek

islands, 331 Nile river : sacrifice to, 276 Nilgiri Hills, see Irulas ; and Todas Nimes : Egyptian cults at, 126 Nine : days before taking boy from

cradle. Sierra Leone, 86 ; days fast

before Lord of Good Luck, Har-

ranians, 414 Nish : amuletic necklace from, 426 Nixie, water spirit, Germany, 273,

275,277 Njambi Karunga, deity, Herero, 239

Noeforese : bathing, ritual, 264 Noke : " wild huntsman " story, 342 Norfolk : west, dairy customs and

beliefs, 435-6 Northallerton, see Osmotherly North America : {see also Canada ; Eskimo ; Greenland ; Mexico ; and United States of North America); bathing, ritual, 264-5 » relatives fast till after funeral, 398 ; string games,

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Northamptonshire, see Barnwell

North Brabant, see Tilburg

North Holland, see Haarlem ; and

Medemblik Northumberland, see Jarrow : and

Monkton North-west Provinces (India), see

Mirzapur Norway : folktale, 192 ; in folktales,

Ireland, 27, 32, 47-8 ; night placed

before day in reckoning time, 136 Notes on some Early Ecclesiastical

Practices in Armenia, by F. C.

Conybeare, 432-5 Notices to Members, by F. A. Milne,

212 Notion de V Etre Stipreme, La, chez

les Peuples Non-Civilisis, by R.

Hoffmann, reviewed, 467-9 November : {see also Guy Fawkes

Day); fast in Manichaeism, 415;

festival at sowing, Egypt, 223 ; 5th,

licensed poaching on, Lincolnshire,

438 ; souling &c. songs. Midlands,

439 Nuada of the silver hand, 228 Numbers in folklore, see under var-

iot4s numbers, such as Seven Nursery rhymes : Scotland, 247 Nutt, A: The Celtic Other-World, 445-8 ; review by — Royal Irish Academy : Todd Lecture Series, vols IX, XIII, and XIV, 224-31 Nyambi, West African deity, 238-9,

444 Nyanja : name of leopard in, 239 ;

Werner's The Natives of British

Central Africa reviewed, 243-5 Nyassaland, see Nyanja ; Wakinga ;

and Yao Nzambi, West African deity, 238-9,

444

Oak-tree : branches of King Curoi, 52 ; in The Fairy Mythology, 50 ; in tale of Dun Mouse, 230