[186] Greenlees, _Journal of Mental Science_, July, 1895. A gentleman long resident among the Kaffirs of South Natal, told Northcote, however, that he had met with no word for masturbation, and did not believe the practice prevailed there. [187] Hyades and Deniker, _Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn_, vol. vii, p. 295. [188] _La Criminalité en Cochin-Chine_, 1887, p. 116; also Mondière, "Monographie de la Femme Annamite," _Mémoires Société d'Anthropologie_, tome ii, p. 465. [189] Christian, article on "Onanisme," _Dictionnaire Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales_; Ploss and Bartels, _Das Weib_; Moraglia, "Die Onanie beim normalen Weibe," _Zeitschrift für Criminal-Anthropologie_, 1897; Dartigues, _De la Procréation Volontaire des Sexes_, p. 32. In the eighteenth century, the _rin-no-tama_ was known in France, sometimes as "pommes d'amour." Thus Bachaumont, in his Journal (under date July 31, 1773), refers to "a very extraordinary instrument of amorous mystery," brought by a traveler from India; he describes this "boule erotique" as the size of a pigeon's egg, covered with soft skin, and gilded. Cf. F.S. Krauss, _Geschlechtsleben in Brauch und Sitte der Japaner_, Leipzig, 1907. [190] It may be worth mentioning that the Salish Indians of British Columbia have a myth of an old woman having intercourse with young women, by means of a horn worn as a penis (_Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, July-Dec., 1904, p. 342). [191] In Burchard's Penitential (cap. 142-3), penalties are assigned to the woman who makes a phallus for use on herself or other women. (Wasserschleben, _Bussordnungen der abendländlichen Kirche_, p. 658.) The _penis succedaneus_, the Latin _phallus_ or _fascinum_, is in France called _godemiche_; in Italy, _passatempo_, and also _diletto_, whence _dildo_, by which it is most commonly known in England. For men, the corresponding _cunnus succedaneus_ is, in England, called _merkin_, which meant originally (as defined in old editions of Bailey's _Dictionary_) "counterfeit hair for women's privy parts." [192] Dühren, _Der Marquis de Sade und Seine Zeit_, 3d ed., pp. 130, 232; id. _Geschlechtsleben in England_, Bd. II, pp. 284 et seq. [193] Gamier, _Onanisme_, p. 378. [194] _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, 1899, p. 669. [195] The mythology of Hawaii, one may note, tells of goddesses who were impregnated by bananas they had placed beneath their garments. B. Stern mentions (_Medizin in der Türkei_, Bd. II, p. 24) that the women of Turkey and Egypt use the banana, as well as the cucumber, etc., for masturbation. In a poem in the _Arabian Nights_, also ("History of the Young Nour with the Frank"), we read: "O bananas, of soft and smooth skins, which dilate the eyes of young girls ... you, alone among fruits are endowed with a pitying heart, O consolers of widows and divorced women." In France and England they are not uncommonly used for the same purpose.