[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915) › v1.c7.77 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.77 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.77 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c7.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.77) from his pipe are sufficient to cause a man to fall down dead. Cp. Ploss-Bartels 4, i, 323 ff. Even the glance of the woman is at this time full of deadly poison (Hertz, “Die Sage vom Giftmädchen,” \*Abh. d. Münchner Ak.\*, xx, 109). Cp. Thurston, \*Omens\*, etc., pp. 185-6. And this superstition is by no means confined to the uneducated even in our own days. Only a few years ago, I am informed by one present, the following happened in an English boarding-school for “young ladies”: The cook had her courses, and therefore did not dare to touch the meat, as it would thus be spoiled. In her difficulty she called in the head mistress. But, as it happened, she too was indisposed. She called one or two of the teachers. But a spiteful fate willed it that they, too, at that very time had to pay their debt to woman’s nature. The meat, therefore, could not be cut up and made ready, to the greatest joy of the very avaricious head of this hungry institution; and the butcher had to be told to take his meat back again for once. - [Previous: v1.c7.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.76) - [Next: v1.c7.78.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.78.1) - [Up: v1.c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.77) · Pramāṇa