Childbirth, Diana as goddess of, i. 12, ii. 128;
precautions taken with mothers at, iii. 32, 33, 233, 234, 239, 245;
women tabooed at, iii. 145;
supposed dangerous infection of, iii. 147 sqq.;
confessions of sins to expedite, iii. 216 sq.;
women after, their hair shaved and burnt, iii. 284;
knots untied at, iii. 294, 296 sq., 297 sq.;
homoeopathic magic to facilitate, iii. 295 sqq.;
primitive ignorance of the causes of, v. 106 sq.;
customs of women after, x. 20