[312] In the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, pp. 287 ff. (1873).
[313] Cp. the reference to the king in Cant. i. 4.
[314] Mittel-Syrien und Damascus, p. 123 (1853).
[315] Arabia Deserta, II. 118 (1921).
[316] See Rothstein’s article, “Moslemische Hochzeitsgebräuche in Lifta bei Jerusalem,” in Dalman’s Palästinajahrbuch, 1910, pp. 102-123, especially 110-114; a photographic illustration of a sword-dance is given on p. 102; and Klein in the Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästinischen Vereins, VI. 94 ff. (1883).
[317] “Its general unscientific nature has been demonstrated by Mr Fison and Dr Westermarck.... The theory, then, that mankind in general, or even a particular section of mankind, even in normal circumstances were accustomed to obtain their wives by capture from other tribes, may be regarded as exploded. There have been, of course, and still are, sporadic cases of capture of wives from hostile tribes or others, but such cannot prove a rule.” Crawley, The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage, p. 367 (1902).
[318] Op. cit. pp. 323 ff.
[319] For the reasons why these maleficent influences should be believed to be present on such occasions see Crawley’s work, chaps, XIII, XIV.
[320] Palestinischer Diwan, p. 254 (1901). For the custom among the Arabs of the Hedjaz see Featherman, op. cit. V. 402.
[321] Krauss, Talmudische Archäologie, II. 39 (1911).