Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c14.12

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unclean, far more than round the mother or the child; for, as a man, he seems so immeasurably more important, in the eyes of the ghostly powers also, than the wretched worthless woman. The man's child-bed is probably, anyhow where it is bound up with torments of any kind, at the same time a magical matter, and bestows charmed and magic strength. And probably it makes a part of the magical homœopathy of primitive man.