[171] Sophocles, _Antigone_, 944 _sqq._; Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, ii. 4. I; Horace, _Odes_, iii. 16. I _sqq._; Pausanias, ii. 23. 7.
[172] W. Radloff, _Proben der Volks-litteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Siberiens,_ iii. (St. Petersburg, 1870) pp. 82 _sq._
[173] H. Ternaux-Compans, _Essai sur l'ancien Cundinamarca_ (Paris, N.D.), p. 18.
[174] George Turner, LL.D., _Samoa, a Hundred Years ago and long before_ (London, 1884), p. 200. For other examples of such tales, see Adolph Bastian, _Die Voelker des Oestlichen Asien_, i. 416, vi. 25; _Panjab Notes and Queries_, ii. p. 148, § 797 (June, 1885); A. Pfizmaier, "Nachrichten von den alten Bewohnern des heutigen Corea," _Sitzungsberichte der philosoph. histor. Classe der kaiser. Akademie der Wissenschaften_ (Vienna), lvii. (1868) pp. 495 _sq._
[175] Thomas J. Hutchinson, "On the Chaco and other Indians of South America," _Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London_, N.S. iii. (1865) p. 327. Amongst the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco the marriage feast is now apparently extinct. See W. Barbrooke Grubb, _An Unknown People in an Unknown Land_ (London, 1911), p. 179.
[176] Monier Williams, _Religious Thought and Life in India_ (London, 1883), p. 354.
[177] H. Vambery, _Das Türkenvolk_ (Leipsic, 1885), p. 112.
[178] Hans Egede, _A Description of Greenland_ (London, 1818), p. 209.
[179] _Revue des Traditions Populaires_, xv. (1900) p. 471.
[180] _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, pp. 145 _sqq._
[181] H.E.A. Meyer, "Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe, South Australia," _The Native Tribes of South Australia_ (Adelaide, 1879), p. 186.
[182] E.J. Eyre, _Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia_ (London, 1845), ii. 304.
[184] R. Brough Smyth, _The Aborigines of Victoria_ (Melbourne and London, 1878), i. 236.
[185] Samuel Gason, in _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxiv. (1895) p. 171.
[186] Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1899), p. 473; _idem, Northern Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1904), p. 615.
[187] James Dawson, _Australian Aborigines_ (Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, 1881), pp. ci. _sq._
[188] Rev. William Ridley, "Report on Australian Languages and Traditions," _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, ii. (1873) p. 268. Compare _id., Kamilaroi and other Australian Languages_ (Sydney, 1875), p. 157.