[74] Kæmpfer, _History of Japan_, quoted by Mr. Frazer, i. 110. [75] Kæmpfer, _History of Japan_, quoted by Mr. Fraser, i. 110. [76] With _Q. R._, 111, _cf._ _Golden Bough_, i. 207; with _Q. R._, 112, _cf._ _G. B._, i. 183; and generally see i. 117. [77] _G. B._, i. 130. [78] For instances see Hartland, _Science of Fairy Tales_, pp. 272-274. [79] Momms., _R. H._, i. 25. [80] _Ibid._, i. 60. [81] _G. B._, i. 170. I may point out that in some parts of Europe these taboos still survive. For six weeks after delivery, the young mother is forbidden to enter a strange house, or go shopping, or draw water from a well, or walk over a sowed field (Grimm, _D. M._^4, iii. pp. 435, 464, Nos. 35, 844, 845). The Esthonians also regard a new-born child as tabooed, and indirect contact with it as dangerous (_Ibid._, p. 488, No. 28). For the death-dealing qualities of women, _cf._ Burchard von Worms, _Samlung der Decrete_, Coln, 1548, p. 201_a_ (quoted by Grimm, iii. 410). Amongst the Eskimo, as amongst the Germans, the young mother is forbidden to leave the house for six weeks (Reclus, _Primitive Folk_, 36); she is also tabooed by the Badagas of the Neilgherrie Hills (_Ibid._, 192). [82] Hartland, _S. of F. T._, p. 93 _ff._ for instances. [83] "Make of it an image in his likeness (_i.e._, of Namtar, the plague); apply (the image) to the living flesh of his body (_i.e._, of the sick man). May the malevolent Namtar who possesses him pass into the image" (Lenormant, _Chaldæan Magic_, p. 51). The Buddhists of Ceylon cure disease in exactly the same way (J. Roberts, _Oriental Illustrations of Scripture_, p. 171). [84] _Cf._ C. F. Gordon Cumming, _Two Happy Years in Ceylon_, i. p. 278, "The astrologer is called in to preside at baby's 'rice feast,' when some grains of rice are first placed in its month. He selects for the little one a name which is compounded from the name of the ruling planet of that moment. This name he tells only to the father, who whispers it low in baby's ear—no one else must know it, and, like the Chinese 'infantile name,' this 'rice name' is never used lest sorcerers should hear it and be able to work malignant spells." [85] For instances see _Folk Lore_, iii. 137. The Romans themselves fettered the image of Saturnus (Macrob., i. 8. 5; Stat. Silv., i. 6. 4; Arnob., iv. 24; Minuc. Fel., c. 22. 5). [86] _Chemnitzer Rockenphilosophie_, 16 and 325 (Grimm, _D. M._^4, iii. 435 and 445).