Omnipresence of demons, [72] sqq.

Omphale and Hercules, [389]

One-eyed buffoon in New Year ceremony, [402]

Onions used to foretell weather of the year, [323]

Onitsha, on the Niger, annual expulsion of evils at, [133];

use of human scapegoats at, [210] sq.

Opening of the Wine-jars, Dionysiac festival of the, [352]

Oraons, the, of Bengal, their belief in demons, [93] sq.;

their use of a human scapegoat, [196]

Orchards, fire applied to, on Eve of Twelfth Day, [317], [319], [320]