Note 248 — Chapter II · THEORY OF THE HORDE AND MOTHER-RIGHT
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Marshall, op. cit., 210. According to Frau Janssen (Globus, XLIII, 371), it is the custom for the "young wife to become the spouse of all the brothers of her husband; her first child counts as that of the eldest brother, the second as that of the second, and so forth." Cf. Hellwald, op. cit., 246.