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Sophocles, Antigone, 944 sqq.; Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, ii. 4. I; Horace, Odes, iii. 16. I sqq.; Pausanias, ii. 23. 7.

Footnote 172: [(return)]

W. Radloff, Proben der Volks-litteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Siberiens, iii. (St. Petersburg, 1870) pp. 82 sq.

Footnote 173: [(return)]

H. Ternaux-Compans, Essai sur l'ancien Cundinamarca (Paris, N.D.), p. 18.

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George Turner, LL.D., Samoa, a Hundred Years ago and long before (London, 1884), p. 200. For other examples of such tales, see Adolph Bastian, Die Voelker des Oestlichen Asien, i. 416, vi. 25; Panjab Notes and Queries, ii. p. 148, § 797 (June, 1885); A. Pfizmaier, "Nachrichten von den alten Bewohnern des heutigen Corea," Sitzungsberichte der philosoph. histor. Classe der kaiser. Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna), lvii. (1868) pp. 495 sq.

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Thomas J. Hutchinson, "On the Chaco and other Indians of South America," Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, N.S. iii. (1865) p. 327. Amongst the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco the marriage feast is now apparently extinct. See W. Barbrooke Grubb, An Unknown People in an Unknown Land (London, 1911), p. 179.

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Monier Williams, Religious Thought and Life in India (London, 1883), p. 354.

Footnote 177: [(return)]

H. Vambery, Das Türkenvolk (Leipsic, 1885), p. 112.

Footnote 178: [(return)]

Hans Egede, A Description of Greenland (London, 1818), p. 209.

Footnote 179: [(return)]

Revue des Traditions Populaires, xv. (1900) p. 471.

Footnote 180: [(return)]

Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp. 145 sqq.