 | Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis - Tristan (Legend) - 1913 - 338 pages
...of a potion for the separation of the parties when its influence abates3. There are with the Feinne seven women who though bound by son and security are...them as their dowry is theirs by right: ... a woman to whom her mate has administered a philtre when entreating her so that he brings her to fornication... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - Marriage - 1921 - 604 pages
...With reference to the latter kind of separation it is said in one of the Brehon law tracts : — " There are with the Feine seven women, who, though...security, are competent to separate from cohabitation, 1 Fowler, Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero, p. 147. Marquardt, op. cit. p. 71 sq. 2 Fowler,... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 616 pages
...With reference to the latter kind of separation it is said in one of the Brehon law tracts : — " There are with the Feine seven women, who, though...security, are competent to separate from cohabitation, 1 Fowler, Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero, p. 147. Marquardt, op. cit. p. 71 sq. 2 Fowler,... | |
 | Sophie Willock Bryant - Ireland - 1923 - 432 pages
...or more noble, or more venerable." 1 In the tract entitled " Heptads," seven cases are described of women who, though bound by son and security, are competent to separate from living with their husbands whatever day they like, " and whatever has been given them as their dowry... | |
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... The Old Irish law and medical tracts also contain provisions in regard to love charms2. The following passage from the Heptads, an Old Irish law tract, makes provision in the case of the administration of a potion for the separation of the parties... 