[68] Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_ (London, 1911), p. 80. As to the interpretation which the Baganda put on the act of jumping or stepping over a woman, see _id._, pp. 48, 357 note 1. Apparently some of the Lower Congo people interpret the act similarly. See J.H. Weeks, "Notes on some Customs of the Lower Congo People," _Folk-lore_, xix. (1908) p. 431. Among the Baganda the separation of children from their parents took place after weaning; girls usually went to live either with an elder married brother or (if there was none such) with one of their father's brothers; boys in like manner went to live with one of their father's brothers. See J. Roscoe, _op. cit._ p. 74. As to the prohibition to touch food with the hands, see _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, pp. 138 _sqq._, 146 _sqq._, etc. [69] Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_, p. 80. [70] De la Loubere, _Du royaume de Siam_ (Amsterdam, 1691), i. 203. In Travancore it is believed that women at puberty and after childbirth are peculiarly liable to be attacked by demons. See S. Mateer, _The Land of Charity_ (London, 1871), p. 208. [71] Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_, p. 80. [72] C. Gouldsbury and H. Sheane, _The Great Plateau of Northern Nigeria_ (London, 1911), pp. 158-160. [73] R. Sutherland Rattray, _Some Folk-lore, Stories and Songs in Chinyanja_ (London, 1907), pp. 102-105. [74] Rev. H. Cole, "Notes on the Wagogo of German East Africa," _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxii. (1902) pp. 309 _sq._ [75] R. Sutherland Rattray, _op. cit._ pp. 191 _sq._ [76] _The Grihya Sutras_, translated by H. Oldenberg, Part i. p. 357, Part ii. p. 267 (_Sacred Books of the East_, vols. xxix., xxx.). [77] Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_ (London, 1911), pp. 393 _sq._, compare pp. 396, 398. [78] See _Totemism and Exogamy_, iv. 224 _sqq._ [79] Sir Harry H. Johnston, _British Central Africa_ (London, 1897), p. 411. [80] Oscar Baumann, _Durch Massailand zur Nilquelle_ (Berlin, 1894), p. 178. [81] Lionel Decle, _Three Years in Savage Africa_ (London, 1898), p. 78. Compare E. Jacottet, _Études sur les Langues du Haut-Zambèze_, Troisième Partie (Paris, 1901), pp. 174 _sq._ (as to the A-Louyi). [82] E. Béguin, _Les Ma-rotsé_ (Lausanne and Fontaines, 1903), p. 113. [83] Henri A. Junod, _The Life of a South African Tribe_ (Neuchatel, 1912-1913), i. 178 _sq._ [84] G. McCall Theal, _Kaffir Folk-lore_ (London, 1886), p. 218. [85] L. Alberti, _De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika_ (Amsterdam, 1810), pp. 79 _sq._; H. Lichtenstein, _Reisen im südlichen Africa_ (Berlin, 1811-1812), i. 428. [86] Gustav Fritsch, _Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika's_ (Breslau, 1872), p. 112. This statement applies especially to the Ama-Xosa. [87] G. McCall Theal, _Kaffir Folk-lore_, p. 218.