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[379] Skeat and Blagden, _Malay Peninsula_, ii. 218.

[380] Newbold, _Political and State Acc. of Malacca_, ii.; Skeat and Blagden, _op. cit._, ii. 56.

[381] Messrs. Spencer and Gillen, _Central Tribes_, 36, give a useful note on this point.

[382] In this they are exactly paralleled by the Khasi people of a.s.sam, among whom we find a limited sort of male chiefs.h.i.+p by succession through females, and an absolute succession to property by females by succession through females (Gurdon, _The Khasis_, 68, 88). Descent from the female is absolute in both cases, and all we get is male ascendancy.

[383] _Secret of the Totem_, 73.

[384] _Op. cit._, 79.

[385] Lang, _Secret of the Totem_, 148.

[386] _Central Tribes_, 72. Mrs. Langloh Parker's information as to the origin of the Euahlayi two-cla.s.s division having arisen from an amalgamation of two distinct tribes, points to the same facts.--_Euahlayi Tribe_, 12.

[387] Spencer and Gillen, _Tribes of Central Australia_, 96, 99, 106.

[388] Lang's Introd. to Bolland's _Aristotle's Politics_ (1877), p.

104; Grant Allen's _Anglo-Saxon Britain_ (1888), pp. 79-83.

[389] _Topography of Ireland_, lib. ii. cap. 19.

[390] _Hist. of Ireland_, ii. 361.

[391] _Irish Nennius_, p. 205; Lang, _Custom and Myth_, p. 265; _Revue Celtique_, ii. 202.

[392] _View of the State of Ireland_, p. 99.

[393] Moryson, _Hist. of Ireland_, ii. 367.

[394] Aubrey, _Remaines of Gentilisme_, 204.

[395] Camden, _Britannia_, iii. 455; iv. 459.

[396] The significance of the word ”gossip” is worth noting. Halliwell says it ”signified a _relation_ or sponsor in baptism, all of whom were to each other and to the parents _G.o.d-sibs_, that is, _sib_, or related by means of religion.” This meaning does not seem to have died out in the days of Spenser, and his use of the word to describe the relations.h.i.+p of the men of Ossory to wolves is very significant. For the history of this important word see Hearn's _Aryan Household_, 290.

[397] Otway, _Sketches in Erris_, 383-4.

[398] _Folklore Record_, iv. 98.

[399] _Ulster Journ. Arch._, ii. 161, 162. They have also another primitive trait. Their trade emblems are carved on their tombstones.

_Roy. Irish Acad._, vii. 260.

[400] This I gather from _Ulster Journ. Arch._, ii. 164, where it is stated that the hare is unpropitious.

[401] _Folklore Journal_, ii. 259.

[402] _Folklore Journal_, ii. 259; _Folklore Record_, iv. 104. Miss Ffennell kindly informed me at the meeting of the Folklore Society where I read a paper on the subject, that she had frequently heard the islanders of Achill, off the coast of Ireland, state their belief that they were descended from seals.

[403] Published by the _Irish Archaeological Society_, p. 27; there is a Seal Island off the coast of Donegal (Joyce, _Irish Place-Names_, ii.