...corresponding superstition ahout the woman in her courses. From the first time when this occurs the woman is carefully segregated from the rest of the tribe, often for a long time,1 and she becomes tabu again on each successive occasion. These tabus at once show how fearful...

...of natural powers attached themselves to a woman during the menstrual period (12: p. 448). Eabbinic laws demand that "a woman during all the days of her...keep. This belief survives among the folk today in .AT lerica, and was evidently brought early in the history of the country, for it is common amo '.g...

...natural powers attached themselves to a woman during the menstrual period. (12 : p. 448). Rabbinic laws demand that " a woman during all the days of...her courses to salt or pickle ; whatever she might perpare would not keep. This belief survives among the folk to-day in America, and was evidently brought...