[357.2] ii. Laisnel de la Salle, 66, 50. At Nagialmagy, in Hungary, young married women assemble on Saint Joseph’s day and the day following, on the market-place and sell their kisses to all comers. ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 359.
[358.1] Filippo Seves, in xii. Archivio, 527.
[358.2] Ostermann, 347; i. Rivista, 560.
[358.3] Bérenger-Féraud, 200, 194. A species of bride-dance seems to be practised at Heideboden, in Hungary, and perhaps also in various places of Italy and Greece. De Gubernatis, Usi Nuz., 189.
[358.4] Herod. iv. 172; Lubbock, 535, quoting Mela; Diodorus Sic. v. 1.
[359.1] Fison and Howitt, 201-5. The punishment for a guilty wife among some of the North American tribes was similar to that of the Kurnai. See Featherman, Aoneo-Mar., 161. Cf. Robertson Smith, Kinship, 137. Other traces of the Nasamonian rite are to be found among the North American Indians. See, for example, a curious Ponka legend given by Dorsey, Cegiha, 616.
[362.1] ii. Garcilasso, 442. Elsewhere (i. 59) he speaks of the participants as “the nearest relations of the bride and her most intimate friends.” He only refers vaguely to the peoples addicted to this form of the rite, and cites Pedro de Cieza as making the same assertion. I have not seen De Cieza’s work; but Mr. Markham observes that he refers to New Granada, not Peru. I am strongly inclined to suspect, on more grounds than one, that Garcilasso’s information is not to be relied on; and that, wherever the custom was followed, it was the bridegroom’s rather than the bride’s relations who took part. Did a somewhat similar custom obtain in Paraguay? See Featherman, Chiapo-Mar., 435. It is to be distinguished from a well-known East Indian custom which springs from a different motive. See Hertz, 41.
[362.2] Mrs. French Sheldon, in xxi. Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 365. A relic of the same custom is found in Guatemala, where the marriage is consummated, not by the bridegroom, but by a kinsman, to whom the bride is brought by the bridegroom’s mother for the purpose. Stoll, 8.
[363.1] Capt. J. S. King, in vi. F.L. Journ., 124.
[363.2] Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 382, 456, 608.