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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