[42] Moll also remarks ("Perverse Sexualempfindung," in Senator's and Kaminer's _Krankheiten und Ehe_) that in this matter it is often hardly possible to draw a sharp line between vice and disease. [43] Instances of this widespread belief--found among the Tamils of Ceylon as well as in Europe--are quoted from various authors by Bloch, _Beiträge zur Ætiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis_, Teil II, p. 278, and Moll, _Untersuchungen über die Libido Sexualis_, bd. i, p. 700. On the frequency of bestiality, from one cause or another, in the East, see, e.g., Stern, _Medizin und Geschlechtsleben in der Türkei_, bd. ii, p. 219. [44] Sometimes (as among the Aleuts) the animal pantomime dances of savages may represent the transformation of a captive bird into a lovely woman who falls exhausted into the arms of the hunter. (H.H. Bancroft, _Native Races of the Pacific_, vol. i, p. 93.) A system of beliefs which accepts the possibility that a human being may be latent in an animal obviously favors the practice of bestiality. [45] For an example of the primitive confusion between the intercourse of women with animals and with men see, e.g., Boas, "Sagen aus British-Columbia," _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, heft V, p. 558. [46] Herodotus, Book II, Chapter 46. [47] Dulare (_Des Divinités Génératrices_, Chapter II) brings together the evidence showing that in Egypt women had connection with the sacred goat, apparently in order to secure fertility. [48] Various facts and references bearing on this subject are brought together by Blumenbach, _Anthropological Memoirs_, translated by Bendyshe, p. 80; Block, _Beiträge zur Ætiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis_, Teil II, pp. 276-283; also Ploss and Bartels, _Das Weib_, seventh edition, p. 520. [49] Mantegazza mentions (_Gli Amori degli Uomini_, cap V) that at Rimini a young goatherd of the Apennines, troubled with dyspepsia and nervous symptoms, told him this was due to excesses with the goats in his care. A finely executed marble group of a satyr having connection with a goat, found at Herculaneum and now in the Naples Museum (reproduced in Fuchs's _Erotische Element in der Karikatur_), perhaps symbolizes a traditional and primitive practice of the goatherd. [50] Bayle (_Dictionary_, Art, Bathyllus) quotes various authorities concerning the Italian auxiliaries in the south of France in the sixteenth century and their custom of bringing and using goats for this purpose. Warton in the eighteenth century was informed that in Sicily priests in confession habitually inquired of herdsmen if they had anything to do with their sows. In Normandy priests are advised to ask similar questions. [51] It is worth noting that in Greek the work choiros means both a sow and a woman's pudenda; in the _Acharnians_ Aristophanes plays on this association at some length. The Romans also (as may be gathered from Varro's _De Re Rustica_) called the feminine pudenda _porcus_.