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;