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Superstition, The (Trenchard), 100
    Navaho people, 4
    Naylor, Mary, 198
    needlework, 208
    neighbors, mutual support of, 111–17, 179
    acts of kindness in, 112
    crime and, 68, 88, 115–17
    firefighting in, 68, 114–15, 117
    illness in, 112–14
    limits of, 116–17
    social oversight in, 147–51, 153, 191–92
    strangers excluded from, 117
    Nelson, John, 40
    Netherlands, 21, 103, 194
    arson in, 55
    bundling in, 198, 200
    clean streets in, 27
    fires in, 52
    queesting in, 198
    walled towns of, 62
    Neville, Sylas, 81, 141, 271
    New Art of Thriving, The, 322
    Newton, Samuel, 317
    Niccols, Richard, 12
    Nichols, Lydia, 240
    Nicholson, Thomas, 306
    Nickel List gang, 41
    Nigeria, 4, 303
    Night (Churchill), 217–18
    nightcaps, 270, 275
    night-cellars, 236, 250, 251, 252
    nightcourting, 197–202
    see also bundling
    night courts, 85–86
    nightdress, 270–71
    nightfall, xxxi–xxxii, 56, 59–60, 90–92, 109
    noxious vapors as descending at, xxxi–xxxii, 12–15, 270
    terms for, xxxii, 12, 91–92
    night-gates, 63
    night kings, 166
    nightmares, 291, 292, 321
    magical prevention of, 272–73
    nightmen, 165–67, 166
    dangers faced by, 166–67
    as “goldfingers,” 166
    night-mobs, 136
    night phantoms, 317
    night season, xxv, 60, 324
    night shift workers, 174, 333, 336
    night sky, 10–13, 11, 13
    apparitions in, 10
    beauty of, 326, 339
    comets in, 10, 11, 326
    light pollution of, 10, 339
    in weather forecasting, 170–71
    see also moon; stars
    night sneaks, 37
    night-soil, 165
    night-spells, 98–99
    night vision, 124
    nightwalkers, 32, 60, 64, 65, 80, 244–45, 331
    nightwatch, 32, 65, 74, 75–84, 83, 88–89, 115, 165, 219, 223, 228
    abuse suffered by, 83–84, 224, 249, 250, 253
    clothing of, 82
    corruption among, 82
    derisory nicknames of, 83
    doorlocks checked by, 79–80
    essential duties of, 76–77, 80–81
    extortion practiced by, 82
    fire prevention by, 79, 85
    heavy responsibility of, 81
    “hue and cry” of, 75
    laws unenforced by, 82, 142
    as lookouts, 77
    mastiffs as, 76
    members of, 81
    as most ancient profession, 75
    negligence of, 82–83
    night-cellars avoided by, 250, 251
    onions eaten by, 82
    pedestrians escorted home by, 80–81
    people’s vigilance heightened by, 79
    popular contempt for, 81–82
    powers of arrest possessed by, 75, 80, 85
    sleep disturbed by, 75, 78–79, 293
    time cried by, 77–78, 79, 138, 293
    trained police force vs., 6, 80, 85, 331–32
    verses sung by, 68, 78–79
    wages of, 81
    weaponry of, 77
    young people as, 81
    youth gangs and, 249–50, 252, 253
    Nightwatch, The (Rembrandt), 82
    noctivagator, 32
    “Nocturnal Remembrancer,” 310–11
    Nocturnal Revels: or, a Universal Dream-Book, 313
    Noël du Fail, 180–81, 278
    North, Lord Frederick, 330
    North, Roger, 54
    Northumberland, Duke of, 26
    Norway, 77, 199
    noxious vapors, xxxi–xxxii, 12–15, 270
    Nuremberg, 64, 77
    Nyx, 4

    Oakey, Richard, 38
    O’Donoghue, John “of the moon,” 146
    Odyssey (Homer), 303
    Oedipus (Dryden), 322
    “Of Darknesse” (Mill), 38, 155
    oil lamps, 51, 108, 110–11, 162, 336
    Argand, 331
    construction of, 107
    Paleolithic, 5
    sources of oil for, 107–8, 330–31
    as street lighting, 72, 73, 330–31
    Old Bailey Session Papers, xxviii
    Old English literature, 20
    Old Farmer’s Almanack, 52
    “Old Robin of Portingale,” 305
    Old Wive’s Tale, The (Peele), 182
    Oliver, Peter, 288
    omens, 9, 10
    “On a Dark Night” (St. John of the Cross), 59
    “One Sleeps Better than Two,” 296
    “On Nightfall, What It Is, and Whether It Falls on Us” (Joubert), 12–13
    Orations (Cavendish), 220
    Orkney Islands, 197–98
    Orleans, Duchess of, 27, 218–19, 280
    Orleans, Duke of, 226
    Orleans, Philippe d’, 279–80
    O’Sullivan, Humphrey, xxvii, 130
    Othello (Shakespeare), 48
    Ott, Barbara, 179
    Oughtred, William, 110
    Overbury, Sir Thomas, 45, 279, 290
    owling, 242
    owls, 9, 30

    Padovano, Cyrillo, 267
    Paleolithic period, 5
    Palladius, Peder, 46
    Palmer, Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine,