Nets, marriage of girls to, 144; to catch souls, 182; as amulets, 242; fumigated with smoke of need-fire, 641
New birth, through blood in the rites of Attis, 351; savage theory of, 356; of novices at initiation, 697
New Britain, rain-making in, 63; the Sulka of, 64, 76; magical powers ascribed to chiefs in, 84; avoidance of wife’s mother in, 191; expulsion of devils in, 547–548; secret society in, 680
New Caledonia, rain-making by means of a human skeleton in, 71; making sunshine and drought in, 78; detaining the soul in the body in, 180; ideas as to reflections in, 192; burying the evil spirit in, 548; taro plants beaten to make them grow in, 581
New Guinea, charm to hasten the moon in, 80; charm for making wind in, 80; constitution of society in, 84; leavings of food destroyed in, 201; seclusion and purification of man-slayers in, 213; continence observed during the turtle season in, 217; dread of sorcery in, 229
——, British, charms used by hunters in, 18; charm against snake-bite in, 31; no despots in, 84; double chieftainship in the Mekeo district of, 178; a widower an outcast in, 207; changes in language caused by fear of naming the dead in, 255; girls secluded at puberty in, 597
——, Dutch, 213; names of relations by marriage tabooed in, 250
New Mexico, the aridity of, 76; the Indians of, 502, 551
New South Wales, natives of, bury their dead at flood-tide, 35; tribes of, 38; way of stopping rain in, 64; the drama of resurrection at initiation in, 692, 693
New Year, Chinese, 468; the Celtic, on November first, 633
New Zealand, sanctity of chiefs in, 204; sacredness of chiefs’ blood and heads in, 230, 231; customs at hair-cutting in, 233; magic use of spittle in, 237; names of chiefs tabooed in, 259; effect of contact with a sacred object in, 474; eyes of slain chief swallowed by warriors in, 498; human scapegoats in, 542
Ngoio, a province of Congo, rule of succession to the chiefship in, 283
Nias, island of, magic in, 18; natives of, believe in demons of trees, 116; conception of the soul in, 179; detaining the soul in the body in, 180; taboos observed by hunters in, 218; superstition as to personal names in, 245; succession to the chieftainship in, 294; expulsion of demons in, 549; story of the external soul in, 677
Nicobar Islands, heavy rains attributed to the wrath of spirits in the, 225; custom of mourners in the, 253; changes in language caused by fear of naming the dead, 255; expulsion of demons in the, 567
Niger, belief as to external human souls lodged in animals on the, 686
Nigeria, Northern, custom of putting kings to death in, 271
——, Southern, the priest of the Earth in, 594; theory of the external soul in, 677, 684, 685
Nile, the rise and fall of the, 369; thought to be swollen by the tears of Isis, 370; the “bride” of the, 370; money and offerings of gold thrown into the, 371
——, the Upper, medicine-men as chiefs among the tribes of, 85; Kings of the Rain on, 107
Normandy, burial of Shrove Tuesday in, 305; harvest customs in, 429; Brotherhood of the Green Wolf in, 628–629; processions on the eve of Twelfth Day in, 647
