on.[1672] The Veddahs
think marriage with an older sister abominable, but marriage with
a younger sister is prescribed as the best. Sometimes a father
marries his daughter; in other subdivisions a first cousin
(daughter of the father's sister or mother's brother) is the
prescribed wife.[1673] Mantegazza reports that father and
daughter, mother and son, are not rarely united amongst the
Anamites and that Cambodian brothers and sisters marry.[1674]
Amongst the Kalongs on Java sons live with mothers, and luck and
prosperity are thought to be connected with such unions. Not long
ago, on Minahasa in the Tonsawang district, the closest blood
relatives united in marriage; also on Timorlaut. The Balinese had
a usage that twins of different sex, in the highest castes, were
united in marriage. They could have no notion of incest at
all.[1675] The Bataks have a tradition that marriage between a
man and his father's sister's daughter was formerly allowed, but
that calamities occurred which forced a change of custom.[1676]

+516.+ The people of Teita, in East Africa, who are very dirty
and low, marry mothers and sisters because they cannot afford to
buy wives. They have been in touch with whites for fifty
years.[1677] The chiefs of the Niam Niam take their daughters to
wife.[1678] The Sakalava, on Madagascar, allow brother and sister
to marry, but before such a marriage the bride is sprinkled with
consecrated water and prayers are recited for her happiness and
fecundity, as if there were fears that the union was not pleasing
to the higher powers, and as if there was especial fear that
there might be no offspring. Such marriages are contracted by
chiefs who cannot find other brides of due rank.[1679]

+517.+ The Ossetes think a marriage with a mother's sister right,
but marriage with a father's sister is severely punished. They
have the strictest father family. Marriage with a father's
relative to the remotest cousinship is forbidden, but
consanguinity through the mother they do not notice at all.[1680]
The Ostiaks also have strict father family, and allow marriage
with any relative on the female side, but with none on the male
side. It is an especially fortunate marriage to take two sisters
together.[1681]

+518.+ Amongst the Tinneh, men sometimes marry their mothers,
sisters, or daughters, but this is not approved b