Note 276 — LECTURE VI. The Lines of Development of Primitive Religions.
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On the ordeal, see Post, Ethnologisches Jurisprudenz, Bd. ii., ss. 459, sq., 479; Waitz, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, Bd. i., s. 461. The assertion by some writers that the ordeal was not known to the American Indians is incorrect. For example, Captain Clark recounts those to test the virtue of women who have been accused. Indian Sign Language, pp. 45, 208.