Note 255 — Chapter III · SYMPATHETIC MAGIC

Stanislaus Ciszewski, Künstliche Verwandtschaft bei den Südslaven (Leipsic, 1897), pp. 103 sqq. In the Middle Ages a similar form of adoption appears to have prevailed, with the curious variation that the adopting parent who simulated the act of birth was the father, not the mother. See J. Grimm, Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer, pp. 160, 464 sq.; J. J. Bachofen, Das Mutterrecht, pp. 254 sq. F. Liebrecht, however, quotes a mediaeval case in which the ceremony was performed by the adopting mother (Zur Volkskunde, p. 432).