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of a chief in, i. 251; exorcising the devil in, ii. 160, 161; scapegoats in, ii. 196, 197
Nicobar Islands, ceremony in cases of epidemic in the, ii. 188, 189; expulsion of devils in the, ii. 192
Nightjar, the, ii. 334, 335
Nisus, King of Megara, ii. 305
Nootka Indians, ceremony by the, at the killing of a bear, ii. 113; initiatory ceremony by the, ii. 351
Nördlingen, threshing custom in, i. 371
Norse stories, the external soul in, ii. 312, 313
North American Indians, their idea with regard to strangers, i. 153; restrictions upon women at certain times, i. 170; cleansing after the slaying of enemies, i. 170, 171; abstinence from blood, i. 179; nail cutting amongst the, i. 196; belief concerning the various properties of food, ii. 85, 86; spare the rattlesnake, ii. 110; ceremony at bear killing, ii. 115; respect for the elan, deer and elk, ii. 117, 118; regard for the bones of animals, ii. 125
Northamptonshire, May-day custom in, i. 75; cure for cough, ii. 154
Norway, cut hair and nails buried or burned in, i. 205; midsummer bonfires in, ii. 289
Nürnberg, ceremony of carrying out Death in, i. 259
Oak worship, ii. 291; the chief sacred tree of the European Aryans, ii. 291-370; sacred fires made of, ii. 292; oak wood burnt on Midsummer Day, ii. 294; Balder is the, ii. 295; human representative of the, slain, ii. 294-296; life of, in the mistletoe, ii. 360, 361; superstition concerning the oak tree, ii. 368; a store of solar fire, ii. 369
Oats-goat, ii. 13-15
Obermedlingen, threshing custom in, ii. 21, 22; midsummer fires in, ii. 270
Oberpfalz, threshing custom in, i. 371
October horse, ii. 64-67
Offerings of first-fruits, ii. 373-384
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 embodi-
