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[947] Sanitary purposes may have entered into such customs.

[948] Seligmann, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_, chap. xxiii, p. 138, etc.; Turner, _Samoa_, p. 145 f.; Kidd, _The Essential Kafir_, p. 253.

[949] Ellis, _The E?e-speaking Peoples_, p. 160.

[950] Cicero, _De Legibus_, ii, 26 (Athens); _Roman_ _Digests_, xlvii, 12; _Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum_, i, 13 (Phoenician); and so among many savage and half-civilized peoples.

[951] Crawley, _The Mystic Rose_, chap. iii.

[952] Seligmann, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_, p.

140.

[953] Ploss-Bartels, _Das Weib_, i, 296, 302, 374, 618.

[954] Frazer, article "Taboo" in _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, 9th ed.

[955] Seligmann, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_, p.

466; Crawley, _The Mystic Rose_, p. 52 ff.

[956] G. Brown, _Melanesians and Polynesians_, p. 241; W. H.

Furness, 3d, _The Island of Stone-Money_, p. 38 f.

[957] Crawley, _The Mystic Rose_, p. 399 ff.

[958] A physiological basis for this view seems to lie outside the resources of savage observation, but prohibition of intercourse just after childbirth may have a humanitarian basis.

[959] G. Brown, _Melanesians and Polynesians_, pp. 68, 80, 200; Seligmann, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_, p.

292; W. R. Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, additional note C.

[960] Cf. Westermarck, _Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas_, ii, 406 ff.; Hobhouse, _Morals in Evolution_, Index, s.v. _Chast.i.ty_.

[961] See below, -- 895 ff.; Westermarck, op. cit., i, 620 ff.

[962] Ezek. xliv, 19. The term "sanctify" of the English Version means 'make ritually sacred,' not to be touched. Cf.

Shortland, _Southern Districts of New Zealand_, p. 293 f.; Wellhausen, _Reste arabischen Heidentumes_, p. 106 f.

[963] For Jewish rules see Lev. xxi. The onerous restrictions on the Roman flamen dialis and his wife are given in Frazer's _Golden Bough_ (see Index, s.v. _Flamen dialis_) and the authorities cited by him.

[964] The prohibition of the products of the grapevine to the n.a.z.irite (Numb. vi, 3 f.) seems to have been originally part of the attempt to follow the old pastoral life, in contrast with the Canaanite agricultural life; later it received a religious coloring. The prohibition might begin at the moment of the child's conception (Judg. xiii, 4, 14).

[965] Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., i, 299 ff.

[966] Turner, _Samoa_.

[967] Alexander, _Short History of the Hawaiian People_.

[968] R. Taylor, _New Zealand_, chap. viii.

[969] Furness, _Home Life of the Borneo Head-hunters_, p.

160 ff.

[970] C. S. Hurgronje, _The Achehnese_, p. 262 ff.

[971] T. C. Hodson, in _Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, x.x.xvi.

[972] Codrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 215 ff.

[973] Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_, pp. 50, 96 ff.; Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 106 ff.

[974] Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., iii, 76 f.

[975] _Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, x.x.xii; Frazer, op. cit., iii, 80.

[976] T. C. Hodson, "The Genna amongst the Tribes of a.s.sam"

(in _Journal of the Anthropological Inst.i.tute_, x.x.xvi).

[977] Lev. xxiii; Numb. xxviii f.

[978] Stengel and Oehmichen, _Griechische Sakralaltertumer_, p. 170.

[979] Wissowa, _Religion der Romer_, p. 365 ff.

[980] Numb. xxviii, 26.

[981] The Thargelia; Harrison, op. cit., chap. iii.

[982] Mariner, _Tonga_, p. 483

[983] W. Ellis, _Polynesian Researches_, iv, 388, etc.

[984] Cf. Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 448 ff.

[985] Cf. W. R. Smith, _Religion of the Semites_, additional note C.

[986] Rivers, _The Todas_, p. 405 ff.

[987] Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, i, 288, 354.

[988] For details see Frazer, _Adonis Attis Osiris_, bk.

iii, chap. viii f.

[989] Hollis, _The Nandi_ p. 95 f.

[990] Rhys Davids, _Buddhism_ (in _Non-Christian Religious Systems_), p. 140 f. Thus, as the author remarks, uposatha is a weekly festival; and there is an approach to a true seven-day week.

[991] Alexander, _Short History of the Hawaiian People_.

[992] Details of the week are given in the article "Calendar" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, with references to authorities.