eat, _Malay Magic_, p. 112. The bird in question is thought to
      be the goat-sucker or night-jar.

 M141 The custom of sacrificing all the firstborn, whether of animals or
      men, was probably a very ancient Semitic institution.

  469 2 Kings iii. 27.

  470 See above, pp. 166, 167.

  471 As to the redemption of the firstborn among modern Jews, see L. Loew,
      _Die Lebensalter in der juedischen Literatur_ (Szegedin, 1875), pp.
      110-118; Budgett Meakin, _The Moors_ (London, 1902), pp. 440 _sq._

 M142 Sacrifice of firstborn children among various races.

  472 J. Wellhausen, _Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels_,3 p. 90; W.
      Robertson Smith, _Religion of the Semites_,2 p. 464. On the other
      hand, when I published the foregoing discussion in the second
      edition of my book, I was not aware that the conclusion reached in
      it had been anticipated by Prof. Th. Noeldeke, who has drawn the same
      inference from the same evidence. See _Zeitschrift der Deutschen
      Morgenlaendischen Gesellschaft_, xlii. (1888) p. 483. I am happy to
      find myself in agreement with so eminent an authority on Semitic
      antiquity.

  473 R. Brough Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_, ii. 311. In the Luritcha
      tribe of central Australia "young children are sometimes killed and
      eaten, and it is not an infrequent custom, when a child is in weak
      health, to kill a younger and healthy one and then to feed the
      weakling on its flesh, the idea being that this will give the weak
      child the strength of the stronger one" (Spencer and Gillen, _Native
      Tribes of Central Australia_, p. 475). The practice seems to have
      been common among the Australian aborigines. See W. E. Stanbridge,
      quoted by R. Brough Smyth, _op. cit._ i. 52; A. W. Howitt, _Native
      Tribes of South-East Australia_, pp. 749, 750.

  474 G. Scriviner, in E. Curr's _The Australian Race_, ii. 182.

  475 A. W. Howitt, _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, p. 750.

  476 S. Gason, in E. Curr's _Th