[65] Dr. Iwan Bloch, _The Sexual Life of Our Time_, p. 97.
[66] E. D. Starbuck, _The Psychology of Religion_, p. 401.
[67] _The Psychological Phenomena of Christianity_, p. 419.
[68] _Primitive Paternity_, 2 vols., 1909-10.
[69] _The Mystic Rose_, p. 191.
[70] See Frazer's _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, pp. 145-63, and
Crawley's _Mystic Rose_.
[71] _Man and Woman_, p. 15.
[72] _Taboo_, pp. 163-4.
[73] _Religion of the Semites_, p. 142.
[74] A long list of animals that were sacred to various Semitic tribes
has been compiled by Robertson Smith, _Kinship and Marriage in Early
Arabia_, pp. 194-201.
[75] Robertson Smith, _Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia_, pp. 306-7.
[76] _Religion of the Semites_, pp. 427-9. For a fuller discussion of
the subject, see _Studies in the Psychology of Sex_, by Havelock Ellis,
1901.
[77] Westermarck, _Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas_, p. 666.
[78] Westermarck, p. 666.
[79] Frazer, _Taboo_, p. 150.
[80] See the Rev. Principal Donaldson's _Woman: her Position and
Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, and among the Early Christians_,
bk. iii.
[81] For the general influence of these beliefs about woman in
determining her social position, see note at the end of this chapter.
[82] _The Worship of Priapus_, Pref. p. 9.
[83] _The River Congo_, p. 405.
[84] A description of the Sakti ceremony is given by Major-General
Forlong, _Faiths of Man_, iii. pp. 228-9.
[85] Westropp, _Primitive Symbolism_, p. 30.
[86] _Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought_, p. 256.
[87] Forlong, _Faiths of Man_, iii. p. 66.
[88] _Primitive Symbolism_, p. 36.
[89] _Primitive Paternity_, i. pp. 63-4.
[90] Major-General Forlong agrees with many other authorities in tracing
our custom of kissing under the mistletoe to this ancient practice. "The
mistletoe," he says, "marks in one sense Venus's temple, for any girl
may be kissed if caught under its sprays--a practice, though modified,
which recalls to us that horrid one mentioned by Herodotus, where all
women were for once at least the property of the man who sought them in
Mylitta's temple."--_Rivers of Life_, i. p. 91.
[91] Those who desire further and more detailed information may consult
Forlong's great work, _The Rivers of Life_, Payne Knight's _Worship of
Priapus_, Westropp and Wake's _Phallicism in Ancient Religion_, Brown's
_Dionysiak Myth_, Westropp's _Primitive Symbolism_, R. A. Campbell's
_Phallic Worship_, Hargrave Jennings's _Worship of Priapus_, etc.
[92] A good discussion of the topic will be found in this author's
_Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development_.