iv. 181, 182

Omonga, a rice-spirit who lives in the moon, vi. 139 _n._

Omphale and Hercules, ii. 281 _sq._, v. 182, vi. 258, ix. 389

_Omumborombonga_ (_Combretum primigenum_), the sacred tree of the Herero, ii. 213 _sq._, 218, 219 _sq._, 233

_Omuongo_ tree, ceremony performed by the Ovambo before partaking of its fruit, viii. 71

_Omuwapu_ tree (_Grevia spec._), used by the Herero as a substitute for their sacred tree, ii. 219

On or Aun, King of Sweden, iv. 57, 160 _sq._, 188. _See also_ Aun

Onaght, in the Aran Islands, the rag well at, ii. 161

One shoe on and one shoe off, iii. 311 _sqq._

One-eyed buffoon in New Year ceremony, ix. 402

Ongtong Java Islands, ceremony at the reception of strangers in the, iii. 107 _sq._

_Oni_, the king of Ife, in West Africa, i. 365, iv. 204 _n._

Onions used to foretell weather of the year, ix. 323

Onitsha, on the Niger, the king of, confined to his house, iii. 123; ceremony at eating the new yams at, viii. 58; sham funeral at, viii. 98 _sq._; annual expulsion of evils at, ix. 133; use of human scapegoats at, ix. 210 _sq._

Onktehi, the great spirit of the waters among the Dacotas, xi. 268, 269

Onstmettingen, in Swabia, the Sow at threshing at, vii. 299

Oodeypoor, in Rajputana, gardens of Adonis at, v. 241 _sq._

Ooloo-Ayar Dyaks observe taboos after building a new house, ii. 40

Opening, special, made to carry out the corpses of childless women, i. 142

Opening everything in house to facilitate childbirth, iii. 296 _sq._

—— the eyes and mouth of the dead, Egyptian funeral rite, vi. 15

—— of the Wine-jars, Dionysiac festival of the, ix. 352

Operations of husbandry regulated by observation of the moon, vi. 133 _sqq._

Opheltes, Nemean games celebrated in honour of, iv. 91; his grave at Nemea, iv. 93

Ophites, the, on the Holy Ghost as feminine, iv. 5 _n._ 3

Opis, a Hyperborean maiden, i. 33; a name of Artemis, i. 34 _n._

Opium made by the Wild Wa of Burma, vii. 242

Opossum, imitation of, as a homoeopathic charm, i. 155 _sq._

Opprobrious language levelled at goddess to please her, i. 280

Ops, the wife of Saturn, vi. 233; in relation to Consus, vi. 233 _n._ 6

Oracles given by king as representative of the god, i. 377; given by inspired priests, i. 377 _sqq._; given by the spirits of dead kings, vi. 167, 171, 172; given by men who are inspired by the spirits of crocodiles, lions, leopards, and serpents, viii. 213

Oracular oaks in ancient Prussia, ii. 43; oak at Dodona, ii. 358, xi. 89 _sq._

—— spring at Dodona, ii. 172

—— springs, iv. 79 _sq._

—— trees among the Lithuanians, ii. 9

Oran, bathing at Midsummer in, x. 216

Orang-glai, the, of Indo-China, use a special language in searching for eagle-wood, iii. 404

Orange River, the Corannas of the, xi. 192

Oraons or Uraons of Bengal, their spring festival of sál flowers at the marriage of the Sun and Earth, ii. 76 _sq._, 94, 148, v. 46 _sqq._; gardens of Adonis among the, v. 240; their annual festival of the dead, vi. 59; human sacrifices for the crops among the, vii. 244 _sq._; their offerings of first-fruits to the Sun, viii. 117; their belief in demons, ix. 92 _sq._; their use of a human scapegoat, ix. 196; their belief as to the transformation of witches into cats, xi. 311 _sq._

Orbigny, A. d’, on the superstitions of the Yuracares as to the making of pottery, ii. 204; on division of labour between men and women among the American Indians,