Need fires, ii. 269, 293 Negro idea of the soul, i. 125 Nemi, lake of, i. 1; tree within the sanctuary, i. 4; priest of, i. 249, 253, ii. 223; unchanged, ii. 370, 371 Nerechta, Whitsuntide customs in, i. 96 Neuautz, custom at barley sowing in, ii. 28 Neuhausen, harvest custom in, i. 370 Neusaass, harvest custom in, i. 337 New Britain, rain-making in, i. 13, 14; wind-charm, i. 26; driving away evil in, ii. 158; expulsion of devils in, ii. 203; initiation ceremony in, ii. 352, 353 New Caledonia, rain-making in, i. 16; charm for making sunshine in, i. 22-24 New fruits etc. eaten sacramentally, ii. 68-79 New Guinea, seclusion of girls in, ii. 228, 229 New Ireland, seclusion of girls in, ii. 226-228 New South Wales, ceremony of initiation in, i. 163; first-born eaten in, i. 236 New Year’s Day customs, ii. 170, 171, 179, 193, 194, 272, 273 New Zealand, sacredness of blood in, i. 183; superstition concerning the head, i. 192; hair cutting in, i. 197, 199; clippings from the hair buried in, i. 200; effects of sacred contagion in, ii. 55; gods, ii. 89 Nias, the people of, and the soul, i. 122, 138; precautions against strangers in, i. 154; succession in, i. 238; slaves sacrificed at the funeral of a chief in, i. 251; exorcising the devil in, ii. 160, 161; scapegoats in, ii. 196, 197 Nicobar Islands, ceremony in cases of epidemic in the, ii. 188, 189; expulsion of devils in the, ii. 192 Nightjar, the, ii. 334, 335 Nisus, King of Megara, ii. 305 Nootka Indians, ceremony by the, at the killing of a bear, ii. 113; initiatory ceremony by the, ii. 351 Nördlingen, threshing custom in, i. 371 Norse stories, the external soul in, ii. 312, 313 North American Indians, their idea with regard to strangers, i. 153; restrictions upon women at certain times, i. 170; cleansing after the slaying of enemies, i. 170, 171; abstinence from blood, i. 179; nail cutting amongst the, i. 196; belief concerning the various properties of food, ii. 85, 86; spare the rattlesnake, ii. 110; ceremony at bear killing, ii. 115; respect for the elan, deer and elk, ii. 117, 118; regard for the bones of animals, ii. 125 Northamptonshire, May-day custom in, i. 75; cure for cough, ii. 154 Norway, cut hair and nails buried or burned in, i. 205; midsummer bonfires in, ii. 289 Nürnberg, ceremony of carrying out Death in, i. 259 Oak worship, ii. 291; the chief sacred tree of the European Aryans, ii. 291-370; sacred fires made of, ii. 292; oak wood burnt on Midsummer Day, ii. 294; Balder is the, ii. 295; human representative of the, slain, ii. 294-296; life of, in the mistletoe, ii. 360, 361; superstition concerning the oak tree, ii. 368; a store of solar fire, ii. 369 Oats-goat, ii. 13-15 Obermedlingen, threshing custom in, ii. 21, 22; midsummer fires in, ii. 270 Oberpfalz, threshing custom in, i. 371 October horse, ii. 64-67 Offerings of first-fruits, ii. 373-384