Index.
421
Nails, human, in relation to witch- craft, 4, 7, of were-wolves, 9
Nails, iron, used by witches, (Italy) 6, 97, used also to avert witchcraft. 8, to cause death, (Africa) 133, 134, in Attic imprecations, 361
Naka, the spot where a cobra dies, 285
Naming by Kali, its consequences, 346
Namnite priestesses and agricultural sacrifice, at Sena, 367
Nant Peris, sacred well and fishes, 281
Nash, T., on fairies, 36, 46
Nathdwara, idol at, 336
Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, The, based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service, by Henry Ling Roth, re- viewed, 171
Nature, divisions of, European, Asiatic, and African, 140
Nature-worship, Vedic, 268
Naxos, 349
Neapolitan Witchcraft, by J. B. Andrews, i
Nedu, porter of the Babylonian underworld, 358
Neevougi, an Irish idol, 355
Nepeta glechina, a cure for chlorosis,
389 Nereids, in modern Greek folklore,
27s
Nerthus, German idol carried about,
337
Nettles and nettle-tea as cures, 387,
389 New Guinea, god of rain, thunder
and lightning imprisoned, 349 New Ireland, death and funeral
customs of, 334, idea connected
with fall of an idol. 341 New Year's Day, ball-playing on,
74
Nganga, or Nyanga, the witch-doc- tor of the Fiote, 133, 134, 145
Nicobore, Yorkshire folk-tale by S. O. Addy, 395
Nike Apteros, of Athens, ideas con- nected with the statue, 341, of Olympia, 342
Nile river, the voyage of Osiris upon,
354 Nim tree sacred, 332, 334, branches of, part god of the Koramas, 352
Nineveh, contents of its library, 356
359
Nino, Antonio de, Holy Week Ob- servances in the Abruzzi, 374
Nipples, cure for abscess of, 388
Nkissi, see Fetish
Nonnus, quoted, 367
Norse legends relating to idols' hearts, 333, to devil-binding, 347
North- Western provinces of India, The, their History, Ethnology and Administration, by W. Crooke, reviewed, 267
Norway, folklore of, flames on bar- rows, 253
Notes on Orendel and other Stories, by Prof. W. P. Ker, 289
Notes on the Spirit Basis of Belief and Custom, by J. M. Campbell, quoted, 329
Novelle Indiane, Le, di Visnusarma {Panciatanira) tradotto dal Sans- critto, da Italo Pizzi, reviewed, 62
Nuad of the Silver Hand, his false limb, 341
Nudity in relation to witchcraft, 3, 6, to marriage, 86
Numbers, uneven, in witchcraft, 8^ four and three, 58, seven, 15
Nut, Egyptian goddess, 177
Nut, worm-eaten, the devil im- prisoned in, 347
Nutt, (Alfred), Presidential Address; The Fairy Mythology of English Literature : its origin and Nature, 29
Oakley, (Bucks) morris-dances of,
317
Oakum as medical dressing, 389
Oberon 37, 38, 42, 45
Obituary notices ; W. A. Clouston, 94 ; Rev. Walter Gregor, 188
Odysseus, or Ulysses, his name-trick in modern Greek (Lesbian) folk- lore, 276, Hebridean parallel, 383, in connection with Orendel, 292, 294
Odyssey, the, 291, 293, 294
Qidipus and Jocasta, in modern Greek folklore, 276
Ohio, Folk-medicine in, by Mrs. G. A. Stanbery, 185
Ojha, the, Indian exorcist, 331
Old English Customs, by Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, referred to, 310
Old man, the, at the White House,
