[389] _Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru_, p. 76. [390] See references to cannibalism as a religious rite among the Khonds of Orissa, the people of Sumatra, etc., in Adams’s _Curiosities of Superstition_. [391] Gen. 49 : 11; Deut. 32 : 14; Ecclesiasticus 39 : 26; 50 : 15; 1 Macc. 6 : 34. [392] In _Beduinen und Wahaby_, p. 86 f. [393] _Desert of the Exodus_, I., 90. [394] See page 72, _supra_. [395] Wood’s _Wedding Day_, p. 144. [396] Mason, in _Journ. of Asiat. Soc. of Bengal_, Vol. XXXV., Part II., p. 17; cited in Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, V., 9. [397] Andersson’s _Lake Ngami_, p. 220 f. [398] Shooter’s _Kafirs of Natal_, p. 77. [399] Williams and Calvert’s _Fiji and the Fijians_, p. 134. [400] See Monier Williams’s _Sanskrit Dictionary_, s. v. [401] See Pike’s _Sub-Tropical Rambles_, p. 198. [402] See pages 77, 165, _supra_. [403] This Oriental custom gives an added meaning to the suggestion, that Christ was sent to bring us to his Father, “that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal. 4 : 5). [404] The citations above made are from Roberts’s _Oriental Illustrations of the Scriptures_, p. 574, and from Dubois’s _Des. of Man. and Cust. of India_, Part II., chap. 22; the latter being from the Directory or Ritual of the Purohitas. [405] Doolittle’s _Social Life of the Chinese_, I., 85-87. [406] _China_, p. 72 f. [407] Piedrahita’s _Hist. New Granada_, Bk. I., chap. 6; cited in Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, II., 34. [408] Malcolm, in _Trans. Royal Asiat. Soc._, I., 83; cited in Spencer’s _Des. Soc._, V., 8. [409] Wood’s _Wedding Day_, p. 142. [410] _Ibid._, p. 66 f. [411] _Ibid._, p. 124 f. [412] Rous and Bogan’s _Archæologiæ Atticæ_, p. 167. [413] Wood’s _Wedding Day_, pp. 36, 39. [414] Wood’s _Wedding Day_, p. 151. [415] _Ibid._, pp. 22, 23. [416] _Ibid._, p. 247. [417] _Ibid._, p. 247. [418] _Ibid._, p. 248. [419] _Ibid._, p. 173. [420] Ross’s _The Book of Scottish Poems_, I., 218. [421] Godwyn’s _Rom. Historiæ_, p. 66 f. [422] Tylor’s _Prim. Cult._, I., 85-97. [423] Kurtz’s _History of the Old Covenant_, I., 235. [424] _Ibid._, I., 268. LECTURE III. INDICATIONS OF THE RITE IN THE BIBLE. III. INDICATIONS OF THE RITE IN THE BIBLE. 1. LIMITATIONS OF INQUIRY.