[944] Lev. xii. In the modern Parsi usage a woman after giving birth is secluded forty days.
[945] On the relation between birth customs and systems of relationship (patrilineal and matrilineal) see the references in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, ii, 636.
[946] Numb. xix, 11 ff. For the Mazdean rules see Tiele-Gehrich, Geschichte der Religion im Altertum, ii, 340 ff.
[947] Sanitary purposes may have entered into such customs.
[948] Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, chap. xxiii, p. 138, etc.; Turner, Samoa, p. 145 f.; Kidd, The Essential Kafir, p. 253.
[949] Ellis, The Eẃe-speaking Peoples, p. 160.
[950] Cicero, De Legibus, ii, 26 (Athens); Roman Digests, xlvii, 12; Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, i, 13 (Phœnician); and so among many savage and half-civilized peoples.
[951] Crawley, The Mystic Rose, chap. iii.
[952] Seligmann, The Melanesians of British New Guinea, p. 140.
[953] Ploss-Bartels, Das Weib, i, 296, 302, 374, 618.