The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)

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Oder, the river, Whitsuntide custom on, ii. 84

Odessa, New Easter fire carried to, x. 130 _n._

Odilo, abbot of Clugny, institutes Feast of All Souls, vi. 82

Odin, as a magician, i. 241 _sq._; King Olaf sacrificed to, for the crops, i. 367; the Norse god of war, ii. 364; thought to receive in Valhalla only the dead in war, iv. 13; legend of the deposition of, iv. 56; sacrifice of king’s sons to, iv. 57, 160 _sq._, vi. 220; human sacrifices to, iv. 160 _sq._, 188; hanged on a tree, v. 290; human victims dedicated by hanging to, v. 290

——, Othin, or Woden, the father of Balder, x. 101, 102, 103 _n._

Ododop tribe of Southern Nigeria, chiefs of the, keep their external souls in buffaloes, xi. 208

O’Donovan, E., on a Turcoman remedy for fever by means of knotted threads,