[251] The converse of this holds good elsewhere, for the names of the dead are often tabu. See Rivers, Todas, pp. 625-6; Tylor, p. 142; Brinton, pp. 94-5.
[252] Brinton, p. 197.
[253] Pace Ratzel, ii. 128.
[254] Simson, p. 92; Ratzel, ii. 128.
[255] Markham, Clough, p. 104.
[256] Wallace, p. 360.
[257] According to Waitz the Carib medicine-man was accorded the jus primae noctis (Anthropologie der Naturvölker, iii. 382); Westermarck, p. 76. Von Martius also attributes this custom to certain Brazilian tribes, the chief, not the medicine-man, claiming the right (i. 113, 428, 485).
[258] Letourneau, The Evolution of Marriage, p. 52.
[259] Wallace, p. 355.
[260] This is quite usual of course. See Westermarck, pp. 445-7.