"Wherefore came you, Weerang, In my beauty's pride, Stealing cautiously, Like the tawny boreang, On an unwilling bride? 'Twas thus you stole me From one who loved me tenderly. A better man he was than thee, Who having forced me thus to wed, Now so oft deserts my bed. Yang, yang, yang, yoh. "Oh, where is he who won My youthful heart; Who oft used to bless And called me loved one? You, Wearang, tore apart From his fond caress Her whom you desert and shun; Out upon the faithless one! Oh, may the Boyl-yas bite and tear Her, whom you take your bed to share. Yang, yang, yang, yoh." [566] DARGUN, _Mutterrecht und Raubehe_, 85-87, thinks we have in these forms a transition from actual to formal wife-capture. Possibly they may represent in particular instances transition from capture to purchase. _Cf._ POST, _Familienrecht_, 142 ff., 147 ff. for numerous examples; and KOHLER, "Studien," _ZVR._, V, 337 ff. [567] Compare BERNHÖFT, "Principien des eur. Familienrechts," _ZVR._, IX, 394, 395, who believes that in Europe rape was never a "legal form" of marriage. It was merely a "preliminary act." Among primitive men no difference is made between fact and law; and only in this sense can wife-capture be regarded as the foundation of a marriage; _ibid._, 392, 393. [568] Inhabitants of the Malay island of Djilolo. _Cf._ RIEDESEL, "Galela und Tobeloresen," _ZFE._, XVII (1885). [569] POST, _op. cit._, 148. [570] _Ibid._, 151, 152. [571] _Ibid._, 148, 149. For other examples of leaving a token see _ibid._, 149, 150. Very naturally elopement or abduction most frequently takes place when it is difficult or impossible to bring about the marriage in the legal or customary way. Either the parties belong to groups between which _jus connubii_ does not exist; or the lover is too poor to pay the price demanded for the bride; or else the parents refuse their consent. Here we have an example of the operation of simple motives with which society, at all times and in all places, has been familiar. Such marriages, it has been pointed out, are usually marriages of inclination at least on the side of the lover, as opposed to the conventional marriage by purchase.[572] [572] _Ibid._, 138, 154 ff. An excellent illustration is afforded by Kalmuck custom: KOEHNE, "Das Recht der Kalmücken," _ZVR._, IX, 462.