ed amongst uncivilized people. Fritsch,
_Eingeb. Sued.-Afr._, 140; Gomme, _Folklore_, 220; Ling Roth,
_Sarawak_, I, 109; JAI, XXI, 120; _Globus_, LXXVIII, 228; La
Hontan, _Voyages dans l'Amer._, II, 133; Masson, _Balochistan_,
III, 287.

[1860] Weinhold, _D. F._, I, 260, ff.

[1861] Wilken in _Bijdragen tot T. L. en V.-Kunde_, XXXV, 205.

[1862] Scheltema, _Frijen en Trouwen_, 59; Schotel, _Het
Oud-Holland. Huisgezin_, 228; _Globus_, LXXXII, 324.

[1863] Rudeck, _Gesch. der Sittlichkeit_, 146, 404.

[1864] _Cossacks of the Ukrain_, 281.

[1865] _Travels in the Middle Settlements of N. Amer._
(1759-1760), 144.

[1866] _Hist. of Connecticut_, 325.

[1867] Stiles, _Bundling_, 80.

[1868] Stiles, _Bundling_, 75.

[1869] Stiles, _Bundling_, 112.

[1870] Page 172.

[1871] _Deipnosophists_, XIII, 25.

[1872] _De Gubernat. Dei_, VII, 99.

[1873] Weinhold, _D. F._, II, 22.

[1874] Schultz, _D. L._, 73.

[1875] Migne, _Patrol. Latina_, XXXII, 1000.

[1876] Scherr, _Deutsches Frauenleben_, I, 275.

[1877] Jaeger, _Ulms Leben im M. A._, 544.

[1878] Rudeck, _Oeffentl. Sittlichkeit_, 26-35.

[1879] Westerhout, _Geslachtsleven onzer Voorouders_, 198.

[1880] Scherr, _Kulturgesch._, 223.

[1881] Trevelyan, _England in the Age of Wickliffe_, 280.

[1882] The origin of this disease being unknown, it has been
suggested that it was due to vice and excess in the Middle Ages
(_Umschau_, VII, 71).

[1883] See _Cambridge Hist. of Mod. Europe_, I, especially Lea's
chapter; Janssen, _Deutsches Volk_, VIII; Schultz, _Hoef. Leben_,
I, 452; same author, _Deutsch. Leben_, 254, 257, 277, 283; Du
Laure, _Paris_, 268; Scherr, _Kulturgesch._, 222, on the
fifteenth century.

[1884] Schultz, _D. L._, 283.

CHAPTER XVI

SACRAL HARLOTRY. CHILD SACRIFICE

Men's clubhouses.--Consecrated women.--Relation of sacral
harlotry and child sacrifice.--Reproduction and food supply.--
The Gilgamesh epic.--The Adonis myth.--Religious ritual,
religious drama, and harlotry.--The Babylonian custom; its
relation to religion.--Religion and the mores.--Cases of sacral
harlotry.--The same customs in the Old Testament.--The
antagonism of abundance and excess.--Survivals of sacral
harlotry; analogous customs in Hindostan.--Lingam and yoni.--
Conven