Oil of St. John, ii. 288, 289 Ojebways, sunshine charm used by the, i. 22; seldom fell living trees, i. 61 Olaf, King of Sweden, sacrificed, i. 47, 48 Old Calabar, revellings at the expulsion of devils in, ii. 193 Old man, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 337, 338 Old woman, a name given to the last sheaf, i. 337, 338 Oldenburg, superstition regarding the reflection in, i. 147; custom with regard to clippings from the hair in, i. 201; fire festival in, ii. 250 Omaha Indians, rain-making by the, i. 14; wind clan of the Omahas, i. 26; their totems, ii. 53, 56 Omens, neutralising bad, ii. 151 Onitsha, ceremony of eating the new yams at, ii. 74; New Year festival in, ii. 170, 171; human scapegoats in, ii. 195, 196 Oraon festival, i. 85, 86 Oraons, ceremony at rice planting by the, i. 288 Orchomenus, human sacrifice at the rites of Dionysus in, i. 329 Oregon, belief in the recall of the soul by the Salish Indians of, i. 136, 137 Orestes, the originator of the worship of Diana, i. 3 Orinoco rain-charm, i. 18, 93; sunshine charm, i. 22 Orissa, worshippers of the Queen of England in, i. 41; rice growing in, i. 61 Orkney Islands, transference of sickness in the, ii. 153 Osiris, myth of, i. 301 _sq._; ritual of, i. 303-305; representation of the dead body of, in the temple of Isis, i. 305; a corn-spirit, i. 305-307; a tree-spirit, i. 307-309; grave of, at Philae, i. 309; arguments for and against his being the sun-god, i. 311-313, 316, 317, 318, 320; a god of vegetation, i. 319; rites of, similar to those of Dionysus and Adonis, i. 319, 320; probable origin of the cult of, i. 363; once represented by a human victim, i. 400-404; on monuments, i. 403; key to the mysteries of, i. 404; as a pig, ii. 52-60; death of, ii. 58, 59; annual sacrifice of a pig to, ii. 58, 59; as a bull, ii. 59-61 Osnabrück, harvest custom in, i. 336 Osterode, Easter fires in, ii. 253 Ostiaks, ceremony by the, at the killing of a bear, ii. 111, 112 Ot Damons, custom with regard to strangers by the, i. 151, 152; seclusion of girls amongst the, ii. 229 Otawa Indians, ceremony at the killing of a bear by the, ii. 113; do not burn fish bones, ii. 119 Oude, sin eating in, ii. 156 Owl, the, ii. 335, 336 Ox, ritual at the Athenian sacrifice of the, ii. 38, 39, 41; as an embodiment of the corn-spirit, ii. 41-43; Osiris and the, ii. 59-61 Ozieri, Gardens of Adonis at, i. 290 Pacific, human gods in the, i. 38, 39 Pádams of Assam, superstition concerning lost children by the, i. 63 Palermo, “sawing the old woman” in, i. 261 Palm-tree, the Dyaks and the, ii. 329 —— Sunday custom, ii. 216 Pan, representation of, ii. 34, 35; the Lord of the Wood, ii. 35 Panes, festival of the, ii. 90, 91 Papuans, foods eaten by the, ii. 87; belief in a child’s life being bound up with that of a tree, ii. 329 Paris, procession of mock giant in, ii. 281