[44] Sometimes (as among the Aleuts) the animal pantomime dances of savages may represent the transformation of a captive bird into a lovely woman who falls exhausted into the arms of the hunter. (H.H.  Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific, vol. i, p. 93.) A system of beliefs which accepts the possibility that a human being may be latent in an animal obviously favors the practice of bestiality.

[45] For an example of the primitive confusion between the intercourse of women with animals and with men see, e.g., Boas, “Sagen aus British-Columbia,” Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie, heft V, p. 558.

[46] Herodotus, Book II, Chapter 46.

[47] Dulare (Des Divinites Generatrices, Chapter II) brings together the evidence showing that in Egypt women had connection with the sacred goat, apparently in order to secure fertility.

[48] Various facts and references bearing on this subject are brought together by Blumenbach, Anthropological Memoirs, translated by Bendyshe, p. 80; Block, Beitraege zur AEtiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis, Teil II, pp. 276-283; also Ploss and Bartels, Das Weib, seventh edition, p. 520.

[49] Mantegazza mentions (Gli Amori degli Uomini, cap V) that at Rimini a young goatherd of the Apennines, troubled with dyspepsia and nervous symptoms, told him this was due to excesses with the goats in his care.  A finely executed marble group of a satyr having connection with a goat, found at Herculaneum and now in the Naples Museum (reproduced in Fuchs’s Erotische Element in der Karikatur), perhaps symbolizes a traditional and primitive practice of the goatherd.

[50] Bayle (Dictionary, Art, Bathyllus) quotes various authorities concerning the Italian auxiliaries in the south of France in the sixteenth century and their custom of bringing and using goats for this purpose.  Warton in the eighteenth century was informed that in Sicily priests in confession habitually inquired of herdsmen if they had anything to do with their sows.  In Normandy priests are advised to ask similar questions.

[51] It is worth noting that in Greek the work choiros means both a sow and a woman’s pudenda; in the Acharnians Aristophanes plays on this association at some length.  The Romans also (as may be gathered from Varro’s De Re Rustica) called the feminine pudenda porcus.

[52] Schurig, Gynaecologia, pp. 280-387; Bloch, op. cit., 270-277.  The Arabs, according to Kocher, chiefly practice bestiality with goats, sheep and mares.  The Annamites, according to Mondiere, commonly employ sows and (more especially the young women) dogs.  Among the Tamils of Ceylon bestiality with goats and cows is said to be very prevalent.

[53] Mantegazza (Gli Amori degli Uomini, cap.  V) brings together some facts bearing on this matter.

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