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Index.

Yorks, 227 ; firstfooting, Man- chester, 224 ; Yule log burnt, Craven, 225

New York State, see Iroquois

New Zealand, see Maoris

Ngangas, see Wizards

Nias island : exhibits, 2

Niger and the West Sudan, The, by A. J. N. Tremearne, noticed, 538

Night : dangerous to answer ques- tions, Greeks, 158

Night-hags : Wales, 120

Nightingale : in folk-tale, 158-9, Armenia, 507-11

Night-jar bird : guides soul, Garos, 262

Nimr, Bedawi poet, 276, 278

Nim-tree : in charms, India, 83, 330

Ninda Chando, the Moon, India, 126

Nine : in amulet, Germany, 438 ; orders of Heavenly Powers, 428 ; in theory of Cretan kingship,

133. 143-4 Nineveh : exhibits, 266 ; god-image,

62 (plate) Nkirnba society, Congo, 447, 466 Nlakaji : in fetish charm, Congo,

459 Nootkan Indians : house posts, 130 Norfolk, see Holkham Normanton : omens, 225 North : in divination, Manipur, 80 North America : (see also Canada ;

Eskimo ; Mexico ; United States

of N. America ; West Indies) ;

dangerous to tell name, 156 ; heel

shows descent, 273 North east : in divination, Manipur,

80 North Nigeria, see Filani ; Hausas ;

Jemaan Daroro ; Kano ; Zaria North west : in divination, Mani- pur, 80 Norway : (see also Christiania) ;

charm, 444 Notes on the Marriage Customs of

the Bedii and Fellahin, by Mrs.

H. H. Spoer, 266, 270-95 (plate) Noto : cult of executed criminals,

170 Noughaval : dolmen, 196 ; fairies,

195 ; fort, 183 Nsangalavwa : in fetish ceremony,

Congo, 462 Numbers in folklore, see under

names Nutt, A. : Alfred Nutt : an Ap-

preciation, by J. L. Weston, 512-4 ; Cuckoo Heroes, 230-5 ; death of, 267-8 ; The Future Work of the Folk-Lore Society, 102 ; How Far is the Lore of the Folk Racial?, 379-84; In Me- moriam, by E. Clodd, 335-7; re- views by, — MacNeill's Duanaire Finn, 396-401 ; Nitze's The Fisher King in the Grail Romances, 107-17 ; Evans' The White Book Mabinogion, 237-46 Nyassaland, see Angoni ; Anyanja ; Makonde ; Makua ; Yao

Oak-tree : Beggar's Oak, Need- wood Forest, 27 ; on Garland Day, Castleton, 37 ; oak-log fire for Perun, Slavonians, 67 ; in rhyme, 37 ; tree of sun-god, Greece, 67 ; Zeus as god of,

133 Oar as tea-leaf sign, Yorks, 227 Oaths : on iron, Hausas, 202 ; by

Thor, Sweden, 77 O'Briens, legends of, 181, 188-9,

191, 341-2, 347, 479 Oceania : exhibits from, 2-3, 9 ;

The Father's Sister in Oceania,

by W. H. R. Rivers, 2, 42-59 Odin, 70, 72-3, 438 Odysseus, saga of, 150 Ogres : Thor enemy of, 77-8 ; v^'hy

failure is fatal to, 150 Oil : in charm, India, 332 Oisin : in place-name, Clare, 184 Okidal, a Method of Killing among

the Hill Tribes of Malabar, by

F. Fawcett, 268 Old as the Moon, As, by F. J.

Stoddard, noticed, 264 Old Christmas Day : flower blooms

and oxen kneel. Craven, 225 Old Etruria and Modern Tuscany,

by M. L. Cameron, revievi^ed,

249-50 Old-Lore Miscellany of Orkney,

Shetland, Caithness, and Suther- land noticed, 264 Old Upsala : three gods, 73 Old Woman and Sixpence type of

folk-tale, 370-1 Olympia : votive offerings, 64 O'May, J. : Playing the Wer-Beast,

a Malay Game, 371-4 Omdurman : amulets, 9 Omens: amongst Greeks, 159;