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
