66 Dudley Kidd, _The Essential Kafir_ (London, 1904), p. 209. The prohibition to drink milk under such circumstances is also mentioned, though without the reason for it, by L. Alberti (_De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika_, Amsterdam, 1810, p. 79), George Thompson (_Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa_, London, 1827, ii. 354 _sq._), and Mr. Warner (in Col. Maclean’s _Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs_, Cape Town, 1866, p. 98). As to the reason for the prohibition, see below, p. 80. 67 C. W. Hobley, _Ethnology of A-Kamba and other East African Tribes_ (Cambridge, 1910), p. 65. 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 Loubère, _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. M20 Seclusion of girls at puberty among the tribes of the Tanganyika plateau. 72 C. Gouldsbury and H. Sheane, _The Great Plateau of Northern Nigeria_ (London, 1911), pp. 158-160. M21 Seclusion of girls at puberty among the tribes of British Central Africa. 73 R. Sutherland Rattray, _Some Folk-lore Stories and Songs in Chinyanja_ (London, 1907), pp. 102-105. M22 Abstinence from salt associated with a rule of chastity in many tribes. 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 Sûtras_, 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._ M23 Seclusion of girls at puberty among the tribes about Lake Nyassa and on the Zambesi.