On the testimony of a colored clergyman from Liberia.
See Maspero’s _Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria_, p. 232.
Campbell’s “Personal Narrative;” cited in McLennan’s _Studies in Ancient History_, p. 14.
Pinkerton’s “Collection,” VI., 183; cited in _Ibid._, p. 177.
Hayes’s “Open Polar Sea,” p. 432; cited in Lubbock’s _Origin of Civilization_ (Am. ed.), p. 78.
Rous’s _Archæologia Attica_, Lib. IV., cap. 7.
See “Roman Questions,” Q. 29, in Goodwin’s _Plutarch’s Morals_, II., 220 f.; also Godwyn’s _Rom. Hist. Anthol._, Lib. II., § 2; citation of authorities in Becker’s _Gallus_, p. 161, and in Marquardt’s _Privatleben der Römer_, I., 53 f.
Douglas’s _Society in China_, p. 201. See, also, Williams’s _Middle Kingdom_, I., 790; Gray’s _China_, I., 205; and “Marriage Ceremonies of the Manchus,” in London _Folk-Lore_, I., 487.
Adele M. Fielde’s _Corner of Cathay_, p. 39.
“Grihya-Sutras,” or Rules of Vedic Domestic Ceremonies, in _Sacred Books of the East_, XXX., 193, 201.
Guhl and Koner’s _Life of the Greeks and Romans_, p. 192.
See “Roman Questions,” Q. 1, 2, in Goodwin’s _Plutarch’s Morals_, I., 204; also authorities cited in Becker’s _Gallus_, p. 162 f., and Marquardt’s _Privatleben der Römer_, I., 53 f.
See Coulange’s _Ancient City_, pp. 29–41, 55–58, with citations.
See “Marriage Customs of the Mordvins,” in London _Folk-Lore_, I., 437. See, also, the reference to burning incense on the threshold in Tuscany, at p. 17 f., _supra_.
See Kowalewsky’s “Marriage among the Early Slavs,” in London _Folk-Lore_, I., 467.
From “Marriage Customs of the Mordvins,” in London _Folk-Lore_, I., 423, 447.
From “Marriage Customs of the Mordvins,” in London _Folk-Lore_, I., 434–443.
Napier’s _Folk-Lore in the West of Scotland_, p. 51; also Wood’s _Wedding Day in all Ages and Countries_, II., 59 f.
See Bancroft’s _Native Races_, I., 662, 703, 730–734.
On the testimony of the Rev. William Ewing, a missionary in Palestine.
A daughter of a native Copt described to me this ceremony, as she witnessed it at the building of her father’s house in 1878. He was formerly a Coptic priest, but was now a Protestant Christian.
See Tylor’s _Primitive Culture_, I., 104–108.
See article “On Kirk-Grims” in _The Cornhill Magazine_ for February, 1887, p. 196.