Note 257 — Chapter XII
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According to Waitz the Carib medicine-man was accorded the jus primae noctis (Anthropologie der Naturvölker, iii. 382); Westermarck, p. 76. Von Martius also attributes this custom to certain Brazilian tribes, the chief, not the medicine-man, claiming the right (i. 113, 428, 485).