Nicobarese mourners change their names and shave themselves for fear of the ghost, iii. 357 sq.;
their sham fights in honour of the dead, iv. 96 sq.;
their belief in demons, ix. 88;
their ceremony of exorcism by means of pig's blood and leaves, ix. 262
Nicolaus Damascenus on a bad king of Lydia, i. 366
Nicolson, Sheriff Alexander, on the last sheaf in the Highlands of Scotland, vii. 164 sq.
Nicosia, in Sicily, ceremonies to procure rain at, i. 300
Nidugala, in the Neilgherry Hills, the fire-walk at, xi. 8
Niebuhr, B. G., on Servius Tullius, ii. 196 n.;
on the list of Alban kings, ii. 269