172 W. Radloff, _Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Sibiriens_, iii. (St. Petersburg, 1870) pp. 82 _sq._
M59 Impregnation of women by the sun in legends.
173 H. Ternaux-Compans, _Essai sur l'ancien Cundinamarca_ (Paris, N.D.), p. 18.
174 George Turner, LL.D., _Samoa, a Hundred Years ago and long before_ (London, 1884), p. 200. For other examples of such tales, see Adolph Bastian, _Die Voelker des Oestlichen Asien_, i. 416, vi. 25; _Panjab Notes and Queries_, ii. p. 148, § 797 (June, 1885); A. Pfizmaier, "Nachrichten von den alten Bewohnern des heutigen Corea," _Sitzungsberichte der philosoph. histor. Classe der kaiser. Akademie der Wissenschaften_ (Vienna), lvii. (1868) pp. 495 _sq._
M60 Traces in marriage customs of the belief that women can be impregnated by the sun. Belief in the impregnation of women by the moon.
175 Thomas J. Hutchinson, "On the Chaco and other Indians of South America," _Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London_, N.S. iii. (1865) p. 327. Amongst the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco the marriage feast is now apparently extinct. See W. Barbrooke Grubb, _An Unknown People in an Unknown Land_ (London, 1911), p. 179.
176 Monier Williams, _Religious Thought and Life in India_ (London, 1883), p. 354.
177 H. Vambery, _Das Türkenvolk_ (Leipsic, 1885), p. 112.
178 Hans Egede, _A Description of Greenland_ (London, 1818), p. 209.
_ 179 Revue des Traditions Populaires_, xv. (1900) p. 471.
M61 The reason for the seclusion of women at puberty is the dread of menstruous blood.
_ 180 Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, pp. 145 _sqq._
M62 Dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the aborigines of Australia.
181 H. E. A. Meyer, "Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe, South Australia," _The Native Tribes of South Australia_ (Adelaide, 1879), p. 186.
182 E. J. Eyre, _Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia_ (London, 1845), ii. 304.
184 R. Brough Smyth, _The Aborigines of Victoria_ (Melbourne and London, 1878), i. 236.
185 Samuel Gason, in _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxiv. (1895) p. 171.
186 Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1899), p. 473; _idem_, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_ (London, 1904), p. 615.