[110] “Folk-lore,” iv. 363.
[111] “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 337.
[112] Blochmann, “Aîn-i-Akbari,” i. 139.
[113] “Oudh Gazetteer,” ii. 418.
[114] Yule, “Marco Polo,” ii. 70, with note.
[115] “Lectures,” 626 sq.
[116] The most recent authority on the subject, Mr. Hartland, sums up the matter thus: “It is founded on the belief that the child is a part of the parent; and, just as after apparent severance of hair and nails from the remainder of the body, the bulk is affected by anything which happens to the severed portion, so as well after as before the infant has been severed from the parent’s body, and in our eyes has acquired a distinct existence, he will be affected by whatever operates on the parent. Hence whatever the parent ought for the child’s sake to do or avoid before severance it is equally necessary to do or avoid after. Gradually, however, as the infant grows and strengthens he becomes able to digest the same food as his parents, and to take part in the ordinary avocations of their lives. Precaution then may be relaxed, and ultimately remitted altogether,”—“Legend of Perseus,” ii. 406.
[117] “Brâhmanism and Hinduism,” 229.
[118] Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 191; Risley, “Tribes and Castes,” i. 323; Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” i. 84.
[119] Campbell, “Notes,” 410.