[150.2] W. A. Clouston, in Burton, iii. Suppl. Nights, 576, quoting Indian N. and Q.
[150.3] i. Risley, 256.
[151.1] Leland, Gip. Sorc., 101.
[151.2] Ploss, i. Weib, 439, citing von Wlislocki.
[151.3] Ibid., citing Krauss.
[151.4] Von Schulenburg, 232.
[151.5] J. B. Andrews, in ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 111.
[151.6] Featherman, Chiapo-Mar., 444.
[151.7] Ploss, i. Kind, 30, 32; H. Ling Roth, in xxii. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 209. In the island of Aurora a woman sometimes takes it into her head “that the origin, or beginning, of one of her children is a cocoa-nut, or bread-fruit, or something of that kind;” and this gives rise to a prohibition of the object for food, just as in the case of a totem. Rev. Dr. Codrington, in xviii. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 310; ii. Rep. Austr. Ass., 612. I hardly know how to account for this notion except by the suggestion that such a woman may have eaten the fruit in question about the time her pregnancy commenced, and thence have been led to believe that the pregnancy was in some way due to it. Dr. Codrington, however, upon inquiry, informs me that he never heard of any belief of the kind. It is perhaps worth noting as a coincidence, if nothing more, that on Lepers’ Island the two intermarrying divisions are called branches of fruit, “as if,” says Dr. Codrington, “all the members hang on the same stalk.” Codrington, Melanesians, 26.
[152.1] Meier, Sagen, 476, 474. It is a saying at Pforzheim: To make a nut-tree bear, let a pregnant woman pick the first nuts. Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1802.