The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

by Ch. Letourneau

[803] Italie ancienne, p. 487.

[804] Lecky, loc. cit., p. 352.

[805] Id., ibid.

[806] Session xxiv., can. 17.

[807] Rambaud, Hist. de la Civil. Franç., t. I^er. p. 107.

[808] D’Arbois de Jubainville, Preface to Hist. inst. primit. of Sir H. Maine.

[809] Klaproth et Gamba, Hist. Univ. des Voy., t. xlv. p. 435.

[810] M. Block, Europe Politique et Sociale, p. 216.

CHAPTER XV.
WIDOWHOOD AND THE LEVIRATE.

I. Widowhood in Savage Countries.—Societies without widowhood—The widow considered as property by the Hottentots and at the Gaboon, etc.—Widowhood in Kouranko, at Kaarta, and in Madagascar—The wives of Queen Ranavalo—Widowhood among the Redskins—Sacrifices and mutilations of widows.