M52 This explanation confirmed with reference to the beating of girls at puberty among the South American Indians. Treatment of a girl at puberty among the Banivas of the Orinoco. Symptoms of puberty in a girl regarded as wounds inflicted by a demon.
156 J. Chaffanjon, _L'Orénoque et le Caura_ (Paris, 1889), pp. 213-215.
M53 Seclusion of girls at puberty among the Hindoos, in Southern India.
157 Shib Chunder Bose, _The Hindoos as they are_ (London and Calcutta, 1881), p. 86. Similarly, after a Brahman boy has been invested with the sacred thread, he is for three days strictly forbidden to see the sun. He may not eat salt, and he is enjoined to sleep either on a carpet or a deer's skin, without a mattress or mosquito curtain (_ibid._ p. 186). In Bali, boys who have had their teeth filed, as a preliminary to marriage, are kept shut up in a dark room for three days (R. Van Eck, "Schetsen van het eiland Bali," _Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië_, N.S., ix. (1880) pp. 428 _sq._).
158 (Sir) H. H. Risley, _Tribes and Castes of Bengal, Ethnographic Glossary_ (Calcutta, 1891-1892), i. 152.
159 Edgar Thurston, _Castes and Tribes of Southern India_ (Madras, 1909), vii. 63 _sq._
162 S. Mateer, _Native Life in Travancore_ (London, 1883), p. 45.
163 Arthur A. Perera, "Glimpses of Singhalese Social Life," _Indian Antiquary_, xxxi. (1902) p. 380.
M54 Seclusion of girls at puberty in Cambodia.
164 J. Moura, _Le Royaume du Cambodge_ (Paris, 1883), i. 377.
165 Étienne Aymonier, "Notes sur les coutumes et croyances superstitieuses des Cambodgiens," _Cochinchine Française: Excursions et Reconnaissances_, No. 16 (Saigon, 1883), pp. 193 _sq._ Compare _id._,_ Notice sur le Cambodge_ (Paris, 1875), p. 50; _id._, _Notes sur le Laos_ (Saigon, 1885), p. 177.
M55 Traces of the seclusion of girls at puberty in folk-tales. Danish story of the girl who might not see the sun.
166 Svend Grundtvig, _Dänische Volksmärchen_, übersetzt von A. Strodtmann, Zweite Sammlung (Leipsic, 1879), pp. 199 _sqq._
M56 Tyrolese story of the girl who might not see the sun.
167 Christian Schneller, _Märchen und Sagen aus Wälschtirol_ (Innsbruck, 1867), No. 22, pp. 51 _sqq._
M57 Modern Greek stories of the maid who might not see the sun.