There are abundant evidences of woman-capture _de facto_ among peoples of the Aryan stock. It existed among the ancient Germans;[487] and according to Olaus Magnus, the Scandinavian nations were continuously at war with one another "propter raptas virgines aut arripiendas."[488] The same writer says that it "prevailed in Muscovy, Lithuania, and Livonia;" while among the South Slavonians actual capture "was in full force no longer ago than the beginning of the present century."[489] Such was the case in Servia, where it was the custom either to lie in wait for a girl of a neighboring village to bear her away as she went out for water or to tend the flocks; or else an armed assault was made upon her home. Murders were thus often committed; for the attacking party were resolved to suffer themselves to be killed rather than give up the girl, and all the inhabitants of the girl's village took part in the fray.[490] According to Dargun, the Slavs are as conspicuous among the Aryans for wife-capture and its survivals as are the Aryans, for the same reason, among the great divisions of mankind.[491] It is not at all unlikely that the custom of wife-stealing existed among the early Romans, even if the story of the Sabine rape be dismissed as merely an ætological myth to explain the symbol of capture in the marriage ceremony.[492] Without doubt it was also common among the primitive Greeks; and "even now, according to Sakellarios, capture of wives occasionally occurs in Greece."[493] It is found "among the aborigines of the Deccan, and in Afghanistan;"[494] while it was known to the ancient Hindus. The code of Manu mentions capture as one of the eight legal forms of marriage. "The forcible abduction from home of a maiden crying out and weeping, after slaying and wounding her relatives and breaking in, is called the Rāksasa form;" but this is only for the military class.[495] [487] DARGUN, _op. cit._, 111-40; WEINHOLD, _Deutsche Frauen_, I, 308-10; GRIMM, _Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer_, 440; WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 387. [488] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 387, citing OLAUS MAGNUS, _Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus_, Book X, chap, ii, 328. _Cf._ also MCLENNAN, _op. cit._, I, 37; and DARGUN, _op. cit._, 95-97, who gives the passage from Olaus. [489] WESTERMARCK, _op. cit._, 387. Compare KOVALEVSKY, _Mod. Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia_, 23, 24. [490] DARGUN, _op. cit._, 93, 94; SCHROEDER, _Hochzeitsbräuche_, 18; KULISCHER, "Intercommunale Ehe durch Raub und Kauf," _ZFE._, X, 197; DÜRINGSFELD, _Hochzeitsbuch_, 73, 77. [491] DARGUN, _op. cit._, 92. [492] _Ibid._, 100-102; ROSSBACH, _Die römische Ehe_, 214, 215, 328 ff.; LUBBOCK, _Origin of Civilization_, 124; SCHROEDER, _op. cit._, 16.