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Rh Murder authorised by custom, British New Guinea, 255

Murring tribe of Australia, their beliefs, 294, 296

Murshidabad, Bengal, rain ceremony from, 277-280

Muscovy, (see also Russia), dukes of, provide food for their guests, 103

Music at Indian marriages, 151

Mussalmân wedding dresses, 126

Mycenæ, 113, 175; warrior vase of, hammers on, 132

Myokokuji, Buddhist temple, Japan, needles offered at, 368

Myth, according to Dr. Brinton, 160, 161; in ritual, 296

Namaqua custom of feeding chiefs, 103

Names, hidden, value of, 259; reasons for not uttering, 295, 305, 314; used as curses, 14, and in magic, 78

Namoi tribe, Australia, beliefs of, 301

Napi, god of the Blackfeet Indians, 313

Naples, folklore of, magic dresses, 129

Narrinyeri tribe, Australia, divinity of, 296

Nathan, adopted son of Chikar the wise, 167

Nats, Burmese belief in powers of, 333

Nausikaa, 113; and her wedding garment, 126

Navajo Indians of North America, rain ceremonies of, 279

Nebuchadnezzar, madness of, parallels, 179

Needles offered to palms, Japan, 368

Negro amulets, 161; embroidery of bells, 79; fetishism, 161; girls' use of fine clothes, 126

Nekuia, women, heroines of, 113

Nereid-wife, of Kythnos, Greek Isles, 341

Nesfield's views on caste, 168

Nestor, 102, 109

Netherlands, marriage customs, "jus primæ noctis" in, 367

New Guinea, British, murders reported in, 255

New Year's fire, 180

Ngalalbal, a wife of Daramulun, and also the emu, 297

Nyarego tribes, Australia, divinity of, 295, 296

Niam-Niam custom of feeding chiefs, 103

Nibelung treasure, the, in English, by W. P. Ker, 372

Nicholson's war-horse, and parallel, 179

Nicosia, rain-making ceremonies at, 188

Nile valley, religious cults of, 163, 164, 165

Nine, the number, in folklore, 334, 378

Nino, Antonio de, letter on holy week observances in the Abruzzi, 363

Nisses, modern Danish belief in, 204, 213

Noah's rain-making or controlling stone given to Japhet, 278

Noemon, suitor to Penelope, 109

Noongahburrah tribe, Australia, their Baiame legend, 303

Noott, Dr., of Cardigan, on belief in effect of tide on human life, 189

Norfolk, folklore of, connected with birds, 82

Norse custom of bone-throwing, 119; superstitions lingering in Lines., 186

Norway, folklore of, wealth of, 220; marriage customs, 127

North India, wife-purchase in, 105

Notes from Cyprus, by G. W. Speth, 188

Nottinghamshire, Devil throwing stones into, from Lincoln Minster, 275, 276

Nuns and others walled up, and why, 367

Nutt, Alfred, Presidential Address, the discrimination of racial elements in the folklore of the British Isles, 30; note to holy week in the Abruzzi, by E. S. Hartland, 353; note to Miss Weston's review of Wechssler's Sage vom Heiligen Graal, 361; reviews by, Borlase's Dolmens of Ireland, 52; Newell's King Arthur and the Table Round, 181

Nyassa, lake, animals considered as spirits of the dead near, 308

Nyoga, Hindu custom of, 105

Oak leaves in May garland. Lincs., 365