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Index.
Wissenschaft, 1 16-7 ; Krauss' Die
Volkskuudc in den Jahren 1897-
1902, 1 13-5 Nyambe, deity, Bobangi people, 327 Nyassa, Lake : folktales, 126 ; no
idolatry near, 68-9 Nyassaland, see Angoniland ; Blan-
tyre ; Mang'anja tribe ; Mwera ;
Ntumbi ; Nyassa, Lake ; Nziza ;
and Yao tribe Nzakomba, Congo deity, 327 Nzambi, deity, Lower Congo, 327 Nziza : folktale from, 344-6
Oak : abode of king Phorbas, 376-7 ; of Ammonium. 414 ; Apollo as eagle on, Troy, 417 ; Apollo leans against, Troy, 417 ; branch in rain charm, Arcadia 312 ; crown of leaves, dedicated to Apollo, Delos, 417, for Apollo on coin, Catana, 417, for Heracles' club on coins, 422 ; of Dodona, 415, piece in- serted in Argo, 270 ; Dryope the oak-maiden, 418 ; in folktales, Russia. 293; as food-tree, 292 ; golden fleece hung on, 271, 293 ; in harvest custom, Kent, 464 ; Helen hanged herself on, Rhodes, 299, 425 ; Heliades, myth of, 421 ; Heracles associated with, 422 ; marked centres of Zeus worship, 295 : names of laurel and bay related to name of oak, 423; of Zeus represented by royal sceptre, Greece, 371 ; preceded laurel, Delphi, 413 ; sacred, Moush, 445, Selly oak, 445, of Tiber, 383 ; sacred to Zeus, 291-2, 296, 372; staff or sceptre of Zeus, 371 ; as statue of " god of rout," Greece, 373 ; Valonia oak called olive oak, Greece, 298; as war trophy, Greece, 373 ; in werwolf story, Arcadia, 408 ; winged, of Pherecydes, 293-5; as Yggdrasill tree, 292-5 ; Zeus not so named as oak god, 265 Oak-heads, in myth of Phorbas, 377 Oaths : {see also Imprecations) ; false, cause death, Jamaica, 455 ; of Labyada;, Delphi, 421 Obeah, see Witchcraft October, see Hallow Eve Odin, myths of, 366-7 Odomanti : Sithon king of, 380 Odrtho, sacred dairy at, Todas, 173 Odysseus, the wooing of, 3S0
Oedipus, King, see King Oedipus Oenomaus, King, see King Oenomaus Qua: built by Amphissus, 418 CLta, Mount : pyre of Heracles, 422 Offerings, see Sacrifices Office-boxes worshipped, India, 223 Officers of Folk-Lore Society, elec- tion of, 3-4 Ogowe river: Bantu tribes, 227 Old Ingle borough Patnphlets, by II. M.
White, short notice of, 480 Olive-tree : crown from for Olympic victor and Zeus, 399-400 ; as resi- dence or tree of Zeus, 296, 298 ; sacred, at Olympia, 400 ; wild, in pyre of Heracles, Mt. CEta, 422 ; wood used in Daphnephoria, Boeo- tia, 409 Ollaire in Irish bardic schools, 14 OUamh, training and powers of, 14-6 Olympia : acquired by Pelops, 398 ; in myth of Heracles, 279: Olympic games, 398-402; oracle, 395; sacri- fices by Oenomaus, 399 ; white poplar sacred to Zeus, 297, 419 ; wild olive sacred to Zeus, 298; Zeus as thunderbolt, 267, and as under- ground god, 276 Omens: from animals, Jamaica, 89, 90, 94, 206, 210-1, 213-4, 453, 455, Monmouthshire, 221 ; from birds, Greeks, 386, 390- 1, Guernsey, 121, Ireland, 462, Jamaica, 89, 93-4, 206-S, 210-1, 213-4, 451. 453. 455 ; from birthday, Janiaica, 456; from breaking of looking-glass, Jamaica, 207, 212, 455, or sucker leaf or bough, Jamaica, 89, 212-3, 453, or sugar cane, Jamaica, 450, or tree limb, Jamaica, 208, 213. 453, or vessel, Jamaica, 93, or wine glass, Jamaica, 90, or wedding ring &c. , Jamaica, 451, 455; from burn- ing thread, Jamaica, 452, or wood, Candlemas, Moush, 437 ; from clouds, Anjou, 293, Jamaica, 456 ; from corpses, Jamaica, 453; from dreams, Greece, 281, Jamaica. 21 1-2, 456; from eating from pot, Jamaica, 452 ; from ghost, Monmouthshire, 84; from gifts, Jamaica, 93, 212-3; 452; from grave sinking, Jamaica, 453 ; from growth of weed, Jamaica, 452; from green tree falling, Jamaica, 451 ; from hat, Jamaica, 93, 206, 451-2; from house cracking. Jamaica, 210; from insects, Guernsey, 121,
