Index.
499
Oaten cake broken on bride, Ireland, 8i
Oats : in Hallowe'en divination, Roscommon, 438
Obituary, (W. W. Newell), by F. Boas, 209-11
Objection to Portraiture, by Miss B. Cra'ster, 83-4 (plate)
Ocean, see Sea
Ocnos, story of, 19
O'Corra, voyage of sons of, 157-60, 163
October, see Hallowe'en
Odin: " Hava-mal" verses, 222,224; ravens of, 131
Oelsen : mysteriously disturbed cof- fins, 379, 3S6, 389
Oesel island, see Ahrensburg
Ogma the champion, 132
Ogres : in jatakas, 22
Oil mills : haunted by evil spirits, Palestine, 58
Oisin, see Ossianic sagas
Ojibway Indians : dead not carried through door, 373 ; new house built after a death, 373
Old Calabar : ordeal bean, 363
Oldenburg : Schinonte brings change- lings, 275
Olive press : tabooed during cata- menia, Greek islands, 330
Olive-tree : cut by gold sickle, Olym- pia, 26 ; sacred, Palestine, 70, to
., Zeus, Olympia, 26
Olrik, A.: review by, — Sargent and Kittredge's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 470-2
Olympia : cutting sacred olive, 26
Omdurman : amulets, 249
Omens : from bulls, India, 334 ; from falling of staff, Palestine, 72 ; from sneezing, Aristotle, 213, Greek islands, 331 ; of death, Greek islands, 331 ; of harvest, India, 334
Oodnadatta : marriage customs, 184
Opening Windows to Aid the Release of the Soul, by H. Krebs and Editor, 215-6
Ophthalmia, see Eye diseases
Orang Bukit tribes, 454
Ordeals ; Russia, 373
Origin of the Anglo-Saxon Race, by
T. W. Shore, reviewed, 351-3 Orkney islands, see Burra Ortnit and Wolfdietrich, saga of, 50 Oryx, see Unicorn Oscar, son of Oisin, 29, 30
Osiris, ritual of, 220-3 Osmotherley : well legend, 276-7 Osmund, King, see King Osmund Osnaberg, see Roseberry Topping Ossianic sagas : {see also Finn Mac-
Coul) ; Oisin and Niamh, 49 ;
Oisin's visit to Other-World, 153;
quatrain from, 226 Ostiaks : dead not removed through
usual entrance, 373 Other- World, see Hades Otmoor : " wild huntsman " story,
342 Otter: in folktale, 18 Oudh, see Arakh tribe Ovaherero, see Herero Owain, see Iwain Ox : in Chinese animal cycle, 119 ; in
Celtic folktales, 152 Oxford: "Child's Well" cures
sterility, 272 ; derivation of name,
353 Oxfordshire, Jifelslip; Noke; Otmoor; a7id Oxford
Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula,
by W. W. Skeat and C. O. Blagden,
reviewed, 451-6 Palestine, see Besan ; Bethlehem ;
Calirrhoe ; Dothan ; Jerusalem ;
Joppa; Judaea, desert of; Mt.
Carmel ; Nablus ; Neby Moussa ;
Rachel's Tomb ; Ramallah ; Sa- maritans ; and Tiberias Pali Jataka Book, account of, 12-23 Palm-tree : Palestine, 70 Pampas Indians : bathing, ritual, 264 Pamphlets presented to Folk- Lore
Society, see Books Paticatantra, the, 16 Pangan tribe : soul, beliefs about, 456 Panjab : {see also Delhi ; a«^/ Jhang) ;
folk traditions collected in, 427-32 ;
Kanishka ruled, 119-20 Papers read at meetings of Folk-Lore
Society, i, 4, 6-7 Papua, see New Guinea Papuans : mourning custom, 401 ;
string games, 113, 115 Papyrus revenge image, Egypt, 67 Parasol, see Umbrella and parasol Paressf : mourning customs, 398,403-4 Paris : phantasm of dead, 377 Parnkalla tribe : organisation, 184 Parrot: in folktales, 17-8 Parsees : cooking forbidden in house
with corpse, 405
