The history of human marriage

by Edward Westermarck

[1718] v. Haxthausen, ‘Transcaucasia,’ p. 406, note.

[1719] Krauss, loc. cit. pp. 221, et seq..

[1720] ‘Genesis,’ ch. xx. v. 12.

[1721] Robertson Smith, loc. cit. p. 163.

[1722] Michaelis, ‘Abhandlung von den Ehegesetzen Mosis,’ p. 128.

[1723] Becker, loc. cit. vol. ii. p. 448. In Homer, the marriage of brother and sister, strictly speaking, is to be found only in myth (Schrader, loc. cit. p. 392, note).

[1724] Bancroft, loc. cit. vol. ii. pp. 664, et seq.

[1725] Wilken, in ‘Bijdragen,’ &c., ser. v. vol. i. p.  147. Idem, ‘Verwantschap,’ &c., p. 22.

[1726] Franklin, ‘Journey,’ p. 289. Cf. v. Martius, loc. cit. vol. i. pp. 116, 393 (certain Brazilian tribes).

[1727] The Rev. B. Danks mentions (‘Marriage Customs of the New Britain Group,’ in ‘Jour. Anthr. Inst.,’ vol. xviii. p. 283) that in the New Britain Group, where upon theoretical grounds a man may without law-breaking marry his niece, as belonging to another clan, there is, nevertheless, a great repugnance to such unions, among the natives, and in one case where such a union was brought about, the natives utterly condemned it.