[399]. Probably a similar extension of the superstition to animal life occurs also among savages, though the authorities I have consulted do not mention it. A trace, however, of such an extension appears in a belief entertained by the Khasis of Assam, that if a man defies tribal custom by marrying a woman of his own clan, the women of the tribe will die in childbed and the people will suffer from other calamities. See Colonel P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis (London, 1907), pp. 94, 123.
[400]. Job xxxi. 11 sq. (Revised Version).
[401]. תבואה. See Hebrew and English Lexicon, by F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and Ch. A. Briggs (Oxford, 1906), p. 100.
[402]. Genesis xii. 10-20, xx. 1-18.
[403]. Leviticus xviii. 24 sq.
[404]. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 22 sqq., 95 sqq.
[405]. Tacitus, Annals, xii. 4 and 8.
[406]. Columella, De re rustica, xii. 2 sq., appealing to the authority of M. Ambivius, Maenas Licinius, and C. Matius. See on this subject below, p. [205].
[407]. G. Keating, History of Ireland, translated by J. O’Mahony (New York, 1857), pp. 337 sq.; P. W. Joyce, Social History of Ancient Ireland (London, 1903), ii. 512 sq.; J. Rhys, Celtic Heathendom (London and Edinburgh, 1888), pp. 308 sq.
[408]. Compare Totemism and Exogamy, iv. 153 sqq.