[24]. Ralston’s Songs of the Russian People, p. 137.
[25]. On the testimony of a Finnish American.
[26]. Lund’s Every-day Life in Scandinavia in the Sixteenth Century, p. 12 f.
[27]. Jones and Kropf’s Folk-Tales of Magyars, p. 410, note.
[28]. Ibid., p. 410 f.
[29]. Ibid., p. 259.
[30]. Fragmenta Philosophorum Græcorum (ed. Mullach), I., 510.
[31]. See “Marriage Customs of the Mordvins,” in London Folk-Lore, I., 459, note; also, Bergeron’s “Voyage de Calpin,” cap. 10, cited in Burder’s Oriental Customs (2d ed.), p. 24.
[32]. Turner’s Samoa, p. 37.
[33]. See Maspero’s Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria, pp. 195, 219.