Note 76 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS

Brooke Low, in Roth, op. cit., i, 401. See also idem, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1893, xxii, 24. Many primitive peoples are accustomed to trace a direct connection between sexual sins and the welfare of the crops. As Sir James Frazer has shown, this superstition has undoubtedly contributed to a stricter observance of the rules of sexual morality, both among the married and the unmarried. See The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, London, 1911, ii, 104-119.