[874] Herodotus, ii, 39 ff., W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, 2d ed., additional note G; the Roman Lupercalia.
[875] Diodorus Siculus, i, 86 (Egypt); cf. Pliny, Historia Naturalis, x, 4 f.
[876] W. R. Smith, Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, chap. viii (Semites).
[877] See above, §§ 441 ff., 466, and below, § 526; Frazer, Totemism and Exogamy, Index, s.vv. Animals and Totems.
[878] See above, § 443 ff.
[879] So, also, in Northeastern Asia, in the Japan archipelago (the Ainu), and in low African tribes.
[880] Where sexual license before marriage prevails, young girls are allowed to go to these houses.
[881] H. Webster, Primitive Secret Societies.
[882] G. Brown, Melanesians and Polynesians, p. 60 ff.
[883] Mary Kingsley, West African Studies, p. 384, and Travels in West Africa, p. 532 ff.; Ellis, Yoruba, p. 110.