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*    to it one may wound oneself



*    with a knife or any other iron



*    tool. A reason for a sacrifice may



*    be the too frequent menstrua-



*    tion of a woman. The sacrifices



*    consist mainly of dogs, tortoises,



*    and snails, and oil must be used



*    in them; cf. ogũ 1 [ ˩ ˥ ] and Yor.



*    Ogũ [ ˩ / ]; v. ɛfae [ ˩ \ ].



*oguã [ ˥ \ ] (1) a house at the



*    Ɛguae [ ˩ ˩ ] in which agwɛ [ ˩ ˩ ]



*    is held. (2) occurs in ɔɽuɛriɛ



*    n-oguã [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˥ \ ] eunuch in attend-



*    ance in the royal harem; it seems



*    that these eunuchs are victims



*    of accidents during circumcision



*    “due to their having been be-



*    witched.”



*oguãɣo [ ˥ ˥ ˥ ] a timber tree, Khaya



*    ivorensis, “Ogwango”.



*ogue [ ˩ \ ] poverty (cannot be



*    used with the verb gbe [ ˥ ]); v.



*    oʋi [ ˩ ˥ ].



*oguzuma [ ˩ ˥ ˥ ˩ ] a brown antelope.



*ogwa [ ˥ ˥ ] fish-basket (trap).



*ogwɛga [ ˩ \ ˩ ] (1) a tree, Detarium



*    senegalense, also called erh-



*    õgwɛga [ ˩ ˥ (4-1) ˩ ]; the seed is broken



*    in two parts and put on strings



*    (four halves on each string) as



*    an instrument for divining.



*    There is another tree bearing



*    the name ogwɛg-odĩ [ ˩ ˥ ˦ ˩ ], “the



*    deaf ogwɛga”, Klainedoxa gabo-



*    nensis; its fruit is used as a



*    substitute for the ogwɛga [ ˩ \ ˩ ]



*    proper, though it is not believed



*    to be as useful for the oracle.



*    Another substitute is the fruit



*    of the axwɛxwɛ [ ˥ ˩ ˥ ] tree. (2)



*    the method of divination (v. also



*    ominigbɔ̃ [ ˩ ˩ ˩ ˩ ]) in which the



*    seeds of the above-mentioned



*    tree are used. The instrument of



*    divination consists of four strings



*    each of which contains four