[{69d}] The passage alluded to in Homer does not mean that dawn ‘ends’ the day, but ‘when the fair-tressed Dawn brought the full light of the third day’ (Od., v. 390).
[{70a}] Liebrecht (Zur Volkskunde, 241) is reminded by Pururavas (in Roth’s sense of der Brüller) of loud-thundering Zeus, εριyδουπος.
[{70b}] Herabkunft des Fetters, p. 86-89.
[{71}] 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.
[{72}] 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.
[{73a}] Brough Smyth, i. 423.
[{73b}] Bowen, Central Africa, p. 303.
[{73c}] Lafitau, i. 576.
[{73d}] Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation (1875), p. 75.
[{74a}] Chansons Pop. Bulg., p. 172.