vii. 120;

on the American Indian practice of bleeding themselves to relieve fatigue, ix. 12 _sq._

Orchard, mock marriage before partaking of the fruits of a new, ii. 26, 101

Orchards, fire applied to, on Eve of Twelfth Day, ix. 317, 319, 320

Orchha, the Rajah of, celebrates annually the marriage of the _Salagrama_ to the holy basil, ii. 27

Orchomenus in Arcadia, kingly government at, i. 47

—— in Boeotia, human sacrifice at, iv. 163 _sq._

Orcus, Roman god of the lower world, his marriage celebrated by the pontiffs, vi. 231

Ordeal of battle among the Umbrians, ii. 321; by poison, fatal effects of, iv. 197; of chastity, v. 115 _n._ 2; the poison, administered by young children, vii. 115; of stinging ants undergone by girls at puberty, x. 61, and by young men, x. 62 _sqq._; of boiling resin, x. 311

Ordeals as an exorcism, x. 66; undergone by novices at initiation among the Bushongo, xi. 264 _sqq._

Order of nature, different views of the, postulated by magic and science, xi. 305 _sq._

Oregon, the Salish Indians of, recovery of lost souls among, iii. 66; avoidance of the names of the dead among the Indians of, iii. 352

Orestes at Nemi, i. 10 _sq._, 21 _n._ 2, 24; the matricide, cleansed of his mother’s murder at Troezen, i. 26; cured of his madness in Laconia, i. 161; appeases his mother’s Furies by biting off his finger, iii. 166 _n._ 2; pursued by his mother’s Furies, iii. 188; polled his hair, iii. 287; flight of, iv. 213; at Castabala, v. 115; his purification by laurel and pig’s blood, ix. 262

Organs of generation, effigies of male, vii. 12, 26, 29; male and female, cakes in shape of, vi. 62

——, internal, of medicine-man, replaced by a new set at initiation, xi. 237, 238 _sq._

Orgiastic rites of Cybele, v. 278

Orgies, sexual, as fertility charms, ii. 98 _sqq._

Oriental mind untrammelled by logic, v. 4 _n._ 1

—— religions in the West, v. 298 _sqq._; their influence in undermining ancient civilization, v. 299 _sqq._; importance attached to the salvation of the individual soul in, v. 300

Origen, on the Holy Spirit, iv. 5 _n._ 3; on the refusal of Christians to fight, v. 301 _n._ 1; on Jesus Barabbas, ix. 420 _n._ 1

Origin of Osiris, vi. 158 _sqq._; of agriculture, vii. 128 _sq._; of astronomy, vii. 307; of death, savage tales of the, ix. 302 _sqq._; of fire, primitive ideas as to the, xi. 295 _sq._

Orinoco, Banivas of the, x. 66

——, Caribs of the, i. 134

——, Guaraunos of the, x. 85

——, Guayquiries of the, x. 85

——, Indians of the, employ women to sow the seed, i. 141 _sq._; their way of procuring rain by means of the dead, i. 287; their use of frogs in a rain-charm, i. 292; their ceremony at an eclipse of the moon, i. 311 _sq._; blow sacred trumpets to make palm-trees bear fruit, ii. 24; their belief in the superior fertility of seeds sown by women, vii. 124; their observation of the Pleiades, vii. 310; eat the hearts of their enemies to make them brave, viii. 150; their treatment of the wild beasts which the hunters have killed, viii. 236

Orinoco, Piaroas Indians of the, viii. 285

——, Tamanachiers of the, ix. 303

——, Tamanaks of the, x. 61 _n._ 3

Orion, the constellation, the soul of Horus in, iv. 5; appearance of, a signal for sowing, v. 290 _sq._; observed in Bali, vii. 314 _sq._; observed by the Battas of Sumatra, vii. 315; observed by the Kamchatkans, vii. 315

Orion’s belt, the constellation, observed by the natives of Bougainville Straits, vii. 313; observed by the Kamchatkans, vii. 315, 315 _n._ 5

—— sword and belt, the constellations, observed by the Masai, vii. 317

Orissa, absence of gardens and fruit-trees on the Khurda estate in, i. 279; Queen Victoria worshipped as a deity in, i. 404; rice treated as a pregnant woman in, ii. 29; well where women obtain offspring in, ii. 160; the Chasas of, viii. 26

Orkney Islands, magic knots in the, iii. 302; chapel of St. Tredwells in the, ix. 29; transference of sickness by means of water in the, ix. 49

Orlagau, in Thüringen, “whipping with fresh green” in the Christmas holidays at, ix. 271

Ornament, external soul of woman in an ivory, xi. 156

Ornaments, amulets degenerate into, xi. 156 _n._ 2

Orne, Midsummer fires in the valley of the, x. 185

Oro, Polynesian war god, iii. 69

——, West African bogey, xi. 229

Orontes, Syrian women bathe in the, to procure offspring, ii. 160

_Ororo_, families of royal descent among the Shilluks, iv. 24

Orotchis, of Siberia, their theory of thunder, iii. 232; bear-festivals of the, viii. 197

Orpheus, prophet and musician, v. 55; the legend of his death, vi. 99

—— and the willow, xi. 294

Orpine (_Sedum telephium_) at Midsummer, x. 196; used in divination at Midsummer, xi. 61

Orvieto, Midsummer fires at, x. 210

Orwell in Cambridgeshire, harvest custom at, v. 237 _n._ 4

Osages, their mourning for their foes, iii. 181

Oscans, the enemies of Rome, ix. 231

Oschophoria, vintage festival at Athens, vi. 258 _n._ 6

Osculati, G., on American Indian belief in transmigration, viii. 285

Osirian mysteries, the hall of the, at Abydos, vi. 108

Osiris threatened by magicians, i. 225; threat of a magician that he will name Osiris aloud, iii. 390; the mummy of, iv. 4; his body broken into fourteen pieces, iv. 32, vi. 129; identified with Adonis and Attis, v. 32, vi. 127 _n._; myth of, vi. 3 _sqq._; his birth, vi. 6, ix. 341; introduces the cultivation of corn and the vine, vi. 7, 97, 112; his violent death, vi. 7 _sq._; at Byblus, vi. 9 _sq._, 22 _sq._, 127; his body rent in pieces, vi. 10; the graves of, vi. 10 _sq._; his dead body sought and found by Isis, vi. 10, 50, 85; tradition as to his genital organs, vi. 10, 102; mourned by Isis and Nephthys, vi. 12; invited to come to his house, vi. 12, 47; restored to life by Isis, vi. 13; king and judge of the dead, vi. 13 _sq._; his body the first mummy, vi. 15; the funeral rites performed over his body the model of all funeral rites in Egypt, vi. 15; all the Egyptian dead identified with, vi. 16; his trial and acquittal in the court of the gods, vi. 17; represented in art as a royal mummy, vi. 18; specially associated with Busiris and Abydos, vi. 18; his tomb at Abydos, vi. 18 _sq._, 197 _sq._; his emblems the sceptre or crook and the scourge or flail, vi. 20, 108, 153; official festivals of, vi. 49 _sqq._; his sufferings displayed in a mystery at night, vi. 50; his festival in the month of Athyr, vi. 84 _sqq._; dramatic representation of his resurrection in his rites, vi. 85; his images made of vegetable mould, vi. 85, 87, 90 _sq._, 91; the funeral rites of, described in the inscription of Denderah, vi. 86 _sqq._; his festival in the month of Khoiak, vi. 86 _sqq._, 108 _sq._; his “garden,” vi. 87 _sq._; ploughing and sowing in the rites of, vi. 87, 90, 96; the burial of, in his rites, vi. 88; the holy sepulchre of, under Persea-trees, vi. 88; represented with corn sprouting from his dead body, vi. 89, vii. 263; his resurrection depicted on the monuments, vi. 89 _sq._; as a corn-god, vi. 89 _sqq._, 96 _sqq._; corn-stuffed effigies of, buried with the dead as a symbol of resurrection, vi. 90 _sq._, 114; date of the celebration of his resurrection at Rome, vi. 95 _n._ 1; the nature of, vi. 96 _sqq._; his severed limbs placed on a corn-sieve, vi. 97; human sacrifices at the grave of, vi. 97, vii. 260; suggested explanations of his dismemberment, vi. 97, vii. 262; sometimes explained by the ancients as a personification of the corn,