[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. _Chastity_.
[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 Nazirite (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 Institute_, xxxvi.
[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 Institute_, xxxii; Frazer, op. cit., iii, 80.
[976] T. C. Hodson, "The Genna amongst the Tribes of Assam"
(in _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxvi).
[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.