Note 130 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS

Sir R. C. Temple, “Burma,” Hastings’s Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, iii, 37. Similarly, the Yabim of German New Guinea require all the inhabitants of a village to remain at home on the morning after the birth of a child. This is regarded as a necessary precaution, if the fruits of the fields and gardens are not to be spoiled by the noxious influences emanating from a woman in childbed (K. Vetter, in Nachrichten über Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und den Bismarck-Archipel, 1897, xiii, 87).