[67] Liebrecht (Zur Volkskunde, p. 241) notices the reference to the ‘custom of women.’ But he thinks the clause a mere makeshift, introduced late to account for a prohibition of which the real meaning had been forgotten. The improbability of this view is indicated by the frequency of similar prohibitions in actual custom.
[68] Astley, Collection of Voyages, ii. 24. This is given by Bluet and Moore on the evidence of one Job Ben Solomon, a native of Bunda in Futa. ‘Though Job had a daughter by his last wife, yet he never saw her without her veil, as having been married to her only two years.’ Excellently as this prohibition suits my theory, yet I confess I do not like Job’s security.
[69] Brough Smyth, i. 423.
[70] Bowen, Central Africa, p. 303.
[71] Lafitau, i. 576.
[72] Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation (1875), p. 75.
[73] Chansons Pop. Bulg., p. 172.
[74] Lectures on Language, Second Series, p. 41.
[75] J. A. Farrer, Primitive Manners, p. 202, quoting Seeman.
[76] Sébillot, Contes Pop. de la Haute-Bretagne, p. 183.