mylitta's

Updated: June 30, 2025

"The mistletoe," he says, "marks in one sense Venus's temple, for any girl may be kissed if caught under its sprays a practice, though modified, which recalls to us that horrid one mentioned by Herodotus, where all women were for once at least the property of the man who sought them in Mylitta's temple." Rivers of Life, i. p. 91.

Chapman Cohen - Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development