§ 5. _Seclusion of Girls at Puberty among the Indians of South America_, pp. 56-68.--Seclusion of girls at puberty among the Guaranis, Chiriguanos, and Lengua Indians, 56 _sq._; among the Yuracares of Bolivia, 57 _sq._; among the Indians of the Gran Chaco, 58 _sq._; among the Indians of Brazil, 59 _sq._; among the Indians of Guiana, 60 _sq._; beating the girls and stinging them with ants, 61; stinging young men with ants and wasps as an initiatory rite, 61-63; stinging men and women with ants to improve their character or health or to render them invulnerable, 63 _sq._; in such cases the beating or stinging was originally a purification, not a test of courage and endurance, 65 _sq._; this explanation confirmed by the beating of girls among the Banivas of the Orinoco to rid them of a demon, 66-68; symptoms of puberty in a girl regarded as wounds inflicted on her by a demon, 68. § 6. _Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in India and Cambodia_, pp. 68-70.--Seclusion of girls at puberty among the Hindoos, 68; in Southern India, 68-70; in Cambodia, 70. § 7. _Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in Folk-tales_, pp. 70-76.--Danish story of the girl who might not see the sun, 70-72; Tyrolese story of the girl who might not see the sun, 72; modern Greek stories of the maid who might not see the sun, 72 _sq._; ancient Greek story of Danae and its parallel in a Kirghiz legend, 73 _sq._; impregnation of women by the sun in legends, 74 _sq._; traces in marriage customs of the belief that women can be impregnated by the sun, 75; belief in the impregnation of women by the moon, 75 _sq._