[333] Westermarck, _op. cit._ p. 251. [334] Winternitz, _Das altindische Hochzeitsrituell_, XL. 30. [335] Skeat, _Malay Magic_, p. 374. [336] Skeat, _op. cit._ p. 381. [337] “For practical purposes, as is hardly necessary to premise, the complex fears of men and women are often subconscious, or are only expressed as a feeling of diffidence with regard to the novel proceedings, and also are not always focussed on the personality of either party with its inherent dangerous properties nor stimulated by conscious realisation of particular dangers.... We have, however, seen cases where the individual in marriage is consciously aware that it is his human partner who is to be feared” (Crawley, _op. cit._ p. 323). [338] Skeat, _op. cit._ p. 377, and for other dances at weddings see pp. 388 f., 392. [339] _The History of Human Marriage_, II. 584 (1921); see also Featherman, _op. cit._ I. 208. [340] Frazer, _GB_, _The Scapegoat_, p. 171. [341] Frazer, _GB_, _The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, II. 255. [342] Westermarck, _Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco_, p. 90. [343] Westermarck, _op. cit._ p. 144. [344] H. A. Metcalf’s translation, _The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus ..._ (1905). [345] _The Mystic Rose_, pp. 337 ff. [346] For these, see the present writer’s book, _Immortality and the Unseen World: a Study in Old Testament Religion_, pp. 141 ff. (1921). [347] _Talmudische Archäologie_, II. 67 f., 483 (1911); cp. also Thomson, _The Land and the Book_: Lebanon, Damascus, and beyond Jordan, pp. 401 ff. (1886). [348] Crawley, in _ERE_, X. 358 _a_. [349] The mystic number, seven, in connexion with the rite will not escape notice. The whole service will be found in Gaster’s _Daily and Occasional Prayers_, vol. I. (1901). The supplications, though not in precisely the same form in which they now appear, are known to go back to pre-Christian times; the antiquity of the ritual by which they are accompanied, especially when its nature is considered, will obviously be at least as great, let alone the long history behind it. [350] _Sacred Books of the East_, XI. 129 (1879-1910). [351] In _ERE_, III. 658 _b_. [352] Hartland, in _ERE_, IV. 426 _b_. [353] Walse, in _ERE_, IV. 453 _b_. [354] Joyce, _Social History of Ancient Ireland_, I. 301 (1903). [355] Alois Musil, _Arabia Petraea_, III. 203 (1908). [356] For illustrations of this kind see, _e.g._, Rosellini, _Les Monuments de l’Égypte et de la Nubie_, Pl. CXIV. fig. 2, Pl. CXVI. fig. 6 (1831); Lepsius, _Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien_, Div. II, Pls. 52, 53 (1849); Perrot et Chipiez, _Histoire de l’art dans l’antiquité: l’Égypte_, p. 701 (1882). [357] In _ERE_, V. 238 _a_. [358] Erman, _Aegypten ..._, I. 336. [359] Erman, _op. cit._ I. 338, II. 434. [360] Reported in the _Times_, 29th June, 1922. [361] Cp. Herodotus, II. 85. [362] _An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians_, II. 272 (1871). [363] _Op. cit._ pp. 344, 408 f., 452.