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Index.
Mount Soche : ancestor worship, 309
Mourning customs, see Death and funeral customs and beliefs
Mouse : avenges inhospitality, Malta. 84 ; lucky if nibbles nets, High- lands, 301 ; as totem, New Cale- donia, 259
Mule : in legend of Holy Family, Azores, 136 ; sprinkled and fed, St. Anthony's Day, Malta, 79
Mulindry Glen : fairy arrows, 210, 299 {J>late)
Multan : why it is hot, 112
Muncle : ghost at, 68
Munich : the Romanini Medusa, 216
Munster ; hostages from buried alive as trophy, 14-5 ; sacrifice, St. Martin's Eve, 186
Murder : ghost of murdered. Staining Hall, 179, Stanton Harcourt, 68 ; recorded by thyme odour, Black- pool and Derbyshire, 1 79-80
Music : Ba-Ronga, 445 : Chinam- wanga, 445 ; musical instruments, Karague, 52, Malays, 388-9, 398, Malta, 80, W. Australia, 330 Zambezi, 445 ; Zapotec tribe, Mexico, 203-4
Musquakie Indians : folklore of, 9, 26, 1 13-4
Mustard-plant : devil stands by, St. John's Eve, Azores, 142
Mutilation, personal, a magical object, 106
Mwenzo : folktales, 444-5
Mycenaean shield connected with Athena, 283
Myggenoes : unlucky to wish 'good luck,' 306
Mzimu, ancestral spirit, Achewa tribe, 61-2
Nadir, one of seven regions compris- ing all space, Zuiii, 430
Naioulie or tea-tree, New Caledonia, 244
Names : contemptuous, as protection, Basutos, 205-6, 417 ; of pristine human groups arise from nick- names, 423-4
Naples : frescoes, 235-6 ; Medusa heads, 217-8, 225, 240
Natives of New Caledonia, The, by J. J. Atkinson, with notes by A. Lang, 243-59
Naxos : Apollo's statue at Delos from, 270
Necklaces, Mapoon Cape, 321, W.
Australia, 346, 348, 366 {f)late\ Nemea : votive picture of, Athens,
268 Nettle : " Ivar's daughter," Hebrides,
99.
Neuuieha, hired mourners, Malta, 82-3
New Caledonia : (^see also Belep tribe ; and Taugau) ; The Natives of New Caledonia, by J. J. Atkin- son, with notes by A. Lang, 243- 59 ; Totemism in New Caledonia, by N. W. Thomas, 418-9
New Guinea : crescent charms, 65 {plate"), 182-3 » exogamy, 418
New Hebrides, 243
Newt : how to kill, Malta, 84
New Year's Day : omens on, Malta, 84-5 ; peach blossom charm, China, 296
New Zealand, see Auckland ; and Maoris
Nicknames, see Names
Nicobar islands : festivals and beliefs, 19
Nightmare, charm against, Orkneys, 440
Nine : in folktale, Malays, 390 ; knots in sprain charm, Shetlands, 372 ; queens in Arthurian legends, 440 ; Valkyries, 440
Nineveh : Medusa's head, 237
Nkanyi tree ; seeds in divination, Basutos and Ba-Thonga. 122
Nkuna tribe, branch of Ba-Thonga. 1 16-7
Nordrup : Iron Age interments at,
15 Normandy : folktale, 43 North : one of seven regions dividing
all space, Zuni, 430, and of four
regions, China, 431 North America : {^see also Behring
Strait ; Eskimos ; Mexico ; ajtd
United States of North America) ;
totemism as system of adornment
and heraldry, 21 Northbrook : ghost laid in pond, 72 North Kimberley : spears, 345 Northleigh : suicide, burial of, 73 North Pole Star : god of, China, 297 North West Provinces of India, see
Benares ; Delhi ; a)id Mirzapur Norway : sprain charm, 372 Nosbreac : fairy arrows, 210, 299
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