[69] Rev. J. Roscoe, The Baganda, p. 80.

[70] De la Loubere, Du royaume de Siam (Amsterdam, 1691), i. 203.  In Travancore it is believed that women at puberty and after childbirth are peculiarly liable to be attacked by demons.  See S. Mateer, The Land of Charity (London, 1871), p. 208.

[71] Rev. J. Roscoe, The Baganda, p. 80.

[72] C. Gouldsbury and H. Sheane, The Great Plateau of Northern Nigeria (London, 1911), pp. 158-160.

[73] R. Sutherland Rattray, Some Folk-lore, Stories and Songs in Chinyanja (London, 1907), pp. 102-105.

[74] Rev. H. Cole, “Notes on the Wagogo of German East Africa,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxxii. (1902) pp. 309 sq.

[75] R. Sutherland Rattray, op. cit. pp. 191 sq.

[76] The Grihya Sutras, translated by H. Oldenberg, Part i. p. 357, Part ii. p. 267 (Sacred Books of the East, vols. xxix., xxx.).

[77] Rev. J. Roscoe, The Baganda (London, 1911), pp. 393 sq., compare pp. 396, 398.

[78] See Totemism and Exogamy, iv. 224 sqq.

[79] Sir Harry H. Johnston, British Central Africa (London, 1897), p. 411.

[80] Oscar Baumann, Durch Massailand zur Nilquelle (Berlin, 1894), p. 178.

[81] Lionel Decle, Three Years in Savage Africa (London, 1898), p. 78.  Compare E. Jacottet, Etudes sur les Langues du Haut-Zambeze, Troisieme Partie (Paris, 1901), pp. 174 sq. (as to the A-Louyi).

[82] E. Beguin, Les Ma-rotse (Lausanne and Fontaines, 1903), p. 113.

[83] Henri A. Junod, The Life of a South African Tribe (Neuchatel, 1912-1913), i. 178 sq.

[84] G. McCall Theal, Kaffir Folk-lore (London, 1886), p. 218.

[85] L. Alberti, De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika (Amsterdam, 1810), pp. 79 sq.; H. Lichtenstein, Reisen im suedlichen Africa (Berlin, 1811-1812), i. 428.

[86] Gustav Fritsch, Die Eingeborenen Sued-Afrika’s (Breslau, 1872), p. 112.  This statement applies especially to the Ama-Xosa.

[87] G. McCall Theal, Kaffir Folk-lore, p. 218.

[88] Rev. Canon Henry Callaway, Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus (Natal and London, 1868), p. 182, note 20.  From one of the Zulu texts which the author edits and translates (p. 189) we may infer that during the period of her seclusion a Zulu girl may not light a fire.  Compare above, p. 28.

[89] E. Casalis, The Basutos (London, 1861), p. 268.