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]