pkin, whom Puck had dressed up with an ass's head. Oberon
came upon her while she was fondling the clown, sprinkled on her an
antidote, and she was so ashamed of her folly that she readily consented
to give up the boy to her spouse for his page.--Shakespeare, _Midsummer
Night's Dream_ (1592).

=Oberon, the Fay=, king of Mommur, a humpty dwarf, three feet high, of
angelic face. He told Sir Huon that the lady of the Hidden Isle
(_Cephalonia_) married Neptan[=e]bus, king of Egypt, by whom she had a
son named Alexander "the Great." Seven hundred years later she had
another son, Oberon, by Julius Caesar, who stopped in Cephalonia on his
way to Thessaly. At the birth of Oberon the fairies bestowed their gifts
on him. One was insight into men's thoughts, and another was the power
of transporting himself instantaneously to any place. At death he made
Huon his successor, and was borne to paradise.--_Huon de Bordeaux_ (a
romance).

=Oberthal= (_Count_), lord of Dordrecht, near the Meuse. When Bertha, one
of his vassals, asked permission to marry John of Leyden, the count
withheld his consent, as he designed to make Bertha his mistress. This
drove John into rebellion, and he joined the anabaptists. The count was
taken prisoner by Gio'na, a discarded servant, but was liberated by
John. When John was crowned prophet-king the count entered the
banquet-hall to arrest him, and perished with him in the flames of the
burning palace.--Meyerbeer, _Le Proph[`e]te_ (opera, 1849).

=Obi.= Among the negroes of the West Indies "Obi" is the name of a magical
power, supposed to affect men with all the curses of an "evil eye."

=Obi-Woman= (_An_), an African sorceress, a worshipper of Mumbo Jumbo.

=Obi'dah=, a young man who meets with various adventures and misfortunes
allegorical of human life.--Dr. Johnson, _The Rambler_ (1750-2).

=Obid'icut=, the fiend of lust, and one of the five which possessed "poor
Tom."--Shakespeare, _King Lear_, act iv. sc. 1 (1605).

=O'Brallaghan= (_Sir Callaghan_), "a wild Irish soldier in the Prussian
army. His military humor makes one fancy he was not only born in a
siege, but that Bell[=o]na had been his nurse, Mars his schoolmaster and
the Furies his playfellows." He is the successful suitor of Charlotte
Goodchild.--Macklin, _Love-[`a]-la-mode_ (1759).

=O'Brien=, the Irish lieutenant under Captain Savage.--Captain Marryat,
_Peter Simple_ (1833).

=Observant Friars=, those friars who ob