Note 916 — Chapter IX · UNLUCKY DAYS
Reading edition
A. van Gennep, Tabou et totémisme à Madagascar, Paris, 1904, p. 199. The Malagasy belief in lucky and unlucky days, as determined by the moon stations (above, p. 275), appears to be a direct importation from the Arabs superimposed on an earlier and thoroughly native observance of tabooed seasons. The Malagasy have also taken over from Islam the week of seven days (above, p. 197).