Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.76

v1.c7.76

² The uncleanness and danger ascribed by various peoples to the menstruating woman and her discharge is indeed well known. It strikes us then as remarkable that the Aino are not frightened by any such superstition (Anthropos, v, 774). According to a Red Indian tale published by Boas, Zschr. f. Ethnol., xxiii, p. 552 (“Abhandlungen ”), if some menstrual blood is put among the tobacco, then three puffs