This applies to both sections.
(28) If one woman is circumcised Masai fashion and another Kikuyu fashion, and the child of the latter is suckled by the other woman, the child becomes thahu: this is a case for a mundu mugo.
This applies to those circumcised Kikuyu fashion.
(29) If a hyæna comes into a hut at night, kills a goat and the owner kills the hyæna in the hut, the hut will be abandoned, and the whole village has to be purified by the kiama.
This applies to both sections of the tribe.
(30) If a hyæna defæcates inside a village, the village and its inhabitants are thahu, and this is a case for the kiama to arrange; the usual sheep is killed and must be eaten by the people of the village. If a person belonging to another village eats any of the meat, a hyæna will come and defile the village where he lives.
This applies to both sections.
(31) If a woman is carrying a gourd on her back and it falls and breaks, she is thahu. This is a matter for the elders of kiama to arrange.
(32) If a goat should come up to where people are sitting, and try to suckle a woman’s breast, the woman is thahu, and the goat has to be taken away and slaughtered at the village of the woman’s father, [[113]]the elders of kiama being called in to purify the woman.
