Note 4 — I CIRCUMCISION AS A RELIGIOUS RITE.
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La Couvade was the designation of the unwritten law, according to which, directly an infant was brought into the world, the husband retired to bed and was sedulously nursed for a certain prescribed period; the mother, on the other hand, getting up and attending to the affairs of the household. Tylor speaks of it as "this once world-wide custom" (Primitive Culture, i. 76).