Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globeBourke, John Gregory
Religion
Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe
Bourke, John Gregory
Scatology
The Apache men in micturating always squat down, while the women,
on the contrary, always stand up. Giraldus Cambrensis says of the
Irish: “Præterea, viri in hac gente sedendo, mulieres stando, urinas
emittunt.”—(“Opera,” edited by James Dimock, and published under the
direction of the Master of the Rolls, London, 1867, vol. v. p. 172.)
The author has seen an Italian woman of the lower class urinating in
this manner in the street near San Pietro in Vinculis, Rome, in open
daylight, in 1883.
French women were to be seen in the streets of Paris urinating while
standing over gutters.—(Mr. W. W. Rockhill.)
“Among the Turks, it is an heresy, to p—s standing.”—(Harington, “Ajax,”
in the chapter “Ulysses upon Ajax,” p. 43.)
The Egyptian “women stand up when they make water, but the men sit
down.”—(Herodotus, “Euterpe,” p. 35.)
Mr. Carl Lumholtz (author of “Among Cannibals,” New York, 1889) also
stated that the Australian men squatted while urinating; the women
generally stood erect, but upon this point he was not quite sure.
“Mantegazza, in his ‘Gli amori degli uomini,’ describing the operation of
splitting the male urethra, practised among Australian tribes, remarks:
‘To urinate, they squat down like our women, lifting the penis slightly.
It appears that, on the contrary, Australian women urinate standing.’
(He is apparently quoting from Michluchs-Maclay.) Among the Kaffirs,
etc., at the Cape, the usual practice, I understand, does not differ
from ours.”—(Personal letter from Havelock Ellis, Esq., editor of the
Contemporary Science series, dated Red Hill, Surrey, Oct. 8, 1889. From
this gentleman there was also received much matter of a most valuable
character, from the early English dramatists, travellers, and others,
which has been already quoted from these sources direct.)
“Behold the strutting Amazonian whore!
She stands in guard, with her right foot before:
Her coat tucked up, and all her motions just,
She stamps, and then cries, ‘Hah!’ at every thrust.
But laugh to see her, tired from many a bout,
Call for the pot, and like a man piss out.”
(Juvenal, Satire VI., Dryden’s translation.)
The Thibetan nuns are forbidden to adopt certain postures, as are the
monks.
“110, 111. Ne pas se soulager debout, n’étant pas malade, est une
règle qu’on doit apprendre.”—(“Pratimoksha Sutra,” translated by W. W.
Rockhill, Paris, 1884, Soc. Asiatique.)
“Æsop, that great man, saw his master make water as he walked. ‘What!’
said he; ‘must we, then, dung as we walk?’”—(Planudus, quoted by
Montaigne, “Essays,” Hazlitt’s translation, New York, 1859, vol. iii. p.
467.)
The lazzaroni of Naples are more filthy in all these respects than the
wildest Maori, Bedouin, or Apache Indian, as the author can assert from
disagreeable personal observation.
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