Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Narcissus and his reflection, 192 |
| Narrinyeri of South Australia, 201 |
| Natal, the Caffres of, 483 |
| Natchez Indians of North America, 63, 215 |
| Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice, 358 |
| Nature, conception of the immutable laws of, not primitive, 91–92; the order and uniformity of, 162 |
| Nauras Indians of New Granada, 497 |
| Navajoes of New Mexico, 678 |
| Navel-string, 39–41, 119 |
| Ndembo, secret society on the Lower Congo, 697 |
| Nebseni, the papyrus of, 380 |
| “Neck, crying the,” in Devonshire, 445 |
| Need-fire, 617, 638–641 |
| Nekht, the papyrus of, 380 |
| Nemi, 1, 4, 5, 8; priest of Diana at, 1, 8, 106, 161, 167; lake of, 1, 704; sacred grove of, 1, 4, 8, 140–142, 147; at evening, 714 |
| Nephele, wife of King Athamas, 290 |
| Nephthys, sister of Osiris, 363 |
| Net to catch the sun, 79 |
| 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 |
| ——, Northern, rites of initiation in, 694, 695 |
| ——, South-eastern, annual expulsion of demons in, 556 |
| New Hebrides, contagious magic in the, 43; magic of refuse of food in the, 201; conception of the external soul in the, 684 |
| New Ireland, 596 |
| 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 Year’s Day, 558, 569; Eve, 538, 561 |
| 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 |
| Ngarigo tribe of New South Wales, 498 |
| 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 |
| Nicaragua, the Indians of, 138 |
| Nicholson, General, worshipped as a god, 100 |
| Nicknames, 247 |
| 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 |
| Nightingale in magic, 32 |
| Nightjars, the lives of women in, 687 |
| 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 |
| ——, the White, 266, 565 |
| Nine, a number used in magical ceremonies, etc., 18, 241, 242, 284, 480, 618, 620, 625, 626, 628, 639 |
| Niska Indians of British Columbia, 699 |
| Nisus, king of Megara, story of, 670 |
| Noessa Laut, magic in, 18 |
| Nonnus, on death of Dionysus, 388 |
| Noon, fear to lose the shadow at, 191 |
| Nootka Indians, 66, 179, 217, 522, 599, 698; wizard, 18 |
| 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 |
| Norrland, Midsummer bonfires in, 625 |
| Norse stories of the external soul, 673 |