The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 02 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
Footnote 752:
_Grihya Sûtras_, translated by H. Oldenberg, vol. i. pp. 37, 168, 279,
283, 382, 384, vol. ii. pp. 46, 191, 260; M. Winternitz, “Das
altindische Hochzeitsrituell,” pp. 4, 56-62 (_Denkschriften der
kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien_, xl., Vienna, 1892); H.
Zimmer, _Altindisches Leben_, p. 312; G. A. Grierson, _Bihār Peasant
Life_ (Calcutta, 1885), p. 368; F. S. Krauss, _Sitte und Brauch der
Südslaven_, pp. 386, 436, cp. 430; J. Lasicius, “De diis Samagitarum
caeterorumque Sarmatarum,” in _Magazin herausgegeben von der
Lettisch-Literarischen Gesellschaft_, xiv. 99; J. Maeletius
(Maletius), “De sacrificiis et idolatria veterum Borussorum Livonum
aliarumque vicinarum gentium,” in _Mitteilungen der Litterarischen
Gesellschaft Masovia_, viii. (1902) pp. 191, 204 (this work is also
reprinted under the name of J. Menecius in _Scriptores rerum
Livonicarum_, ii. (Riga and Leipsic, 1848) pp. 389-392); F. Woeste, in
_Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde_, ii. (1855) p.
91; A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, _Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und
Gebräuche_, pp. 433, 522; A. Kuhn, _Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus
Westfalen_, ii. 38; J. H. Schmitz, _Sitten und Sagen, etc., des Eifler
Volkes_, i. 67; Montanus, _Die deutsche Volksfeste, Volksbräuche und
deutscher Volksglaube_, p. 85; Reinsberg-Düringsfeld, _Hochzeitsbuch_
(Leipsic, 1871), p. 222; L. v. Schroeder, _Die Hochzeitsbräuche der
Esten_ (Berlin, 1888), pp. 127 _sqq._; E. Samter, _Familienfeste der
Griechen und Römer_ (Berlin, 1901), pp. 59-62; O. Schrader,
_Reallexikon der indogermanischen Altertumskunde_, pp. 356 _sq._ This
evidence proves that the custom has been practised by the Indian,
Slavonian, Lithuanian, and Teutonic branches of the Aryan race, from
which we may fairly infer that it was observed by the ancestors of the
whole family before their dispersion.
Footnote 753:
_Grihya-Sûtras_, translated by H. Oldenberg, vol. i. p. 283 (_Sacred
Books of the East_, vol. xxix.).
Footnote 754:
Prof. Vl. Titelbach, “Das heilige Feuer bei den Balkanslaven,”
_Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie_, xiii. (1900) p. 1.
Footnote 755:
F. S. Krauss, _Sitte und Brauch der Südslaven_ (Vienna, 1885), p. 430.
Footnote 756:
F. S. Krauss, _op. cit._ p. 531.
Footnote 757:
This saying was communicated to me by Miss Mabel Peacock in a letter
dated Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, 30th October 1905.
Footnote 758:
Max Buch, _Die Wotjäken_ (Stuttgart, 1882), pp. 52, 59; L. v.
Schroeder, _op. cit._ pp. 129, 132.
Footnote 759:
Above, pp. 221 _sq._
Footnote 760:
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