[342] Westermarck, Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco, p. 90.
[343] Westermarck, op. cit. p. 144.
[344] H. A. Metcalf’s translation, The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus ... (1905).
[345] The Mystic Rose, pp. 337 ff.
[346] For these, see the present writer’s book, Immortality and the Unseen World: a Study in Old Testament Religion, pp. 141 ff. (1921).
[347] Talmudische Archäologie, II. 67 f., 483 (1911); cp. also Thomson, The Land and the Book: Lebanon, Damascus, and beyond Jordan, pp. 401 ff. (1886).
[348] Crawley, in ERE, X. 358 a.
[349] The mystic number, seven, in connexion with the rite will not escape notice. The whole service will be found in Gaster’s Daily and Occasional Prayers, vol. I. (1901). The supplications, though not in precisely the same form in which they now appear, are known to go back to pre-Christian times; the antiquity of the ritual by which they are accompanied, especially when its nature is considered, will obviously be at least as great, let alone the long history behind it.
[350] Sacred Books of the East, XI. 129 (1879-1910).
[351] In ERE, III. 658 b.