 lest some ruder breath of air should touch him, fasting, ' kept in private, and for a number of days abstaining ' religiously from certain viands : you would swear it ' was he who had had the child. ... I had read ' about this in old times, and laughed...  The New England Medical Gazette - Page 2681871Full view - About this book
 | Science - 1874 - 276 pages
...husband lying in bed, huddled up with mats and skins, lest some rude breath of air should touch him, and for a number of days abstaining religiously from...believe such madness ; and I used to suspect that this barbarous custom was related more in jest than in earnest ; but at last I saw it with my own eyes among... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1875 - 646 pages
...days abstaining 1 Report of Select Committee on Aborigines, Victoria, 1859, p. 73. 2 LOG. at. p. 78. ' religiously from certain viands : you would swear...about this in old times, and laughed at it, never think' ing I could believe such madness, and I used to ' suspect that this barbarian custom was related... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1875 - 646 pages
...abstaining 1 Report of Select Committee on Aborigines, Victoria, 1859, p. 73. 1 Loc, tit. p. 78. ' religiously from certain viands : you would swear...about this in old times, and laughed at it, never think' ing I could believe such madness, and I used to ' suspect that this barbarian custom was related... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Aboriginal Australians - 1882 - 614 pages
...Aborigines, Victoria, 1850, p. 73. '* Loc. tit. p. 78. 16 REASON FOR LA COUVADE. ' lest some ruder breath of air should touch him, fasting, ' kept in...about this in old times, and laughed at it, never think ' ing I could believe such madness, and I used to ' suspect that this barbarian custom was related... | |
 | Eliza Burt Gamble - Dominance (Psychology) - 1893 - 402 pages
...than you will see the Abipone husband lying in bed, huddled up with mats and skins lest some ruder breath of air should touch him, fasting, kept in private,...you would swear it was he who had had the child." The custom of putting the father to bed when a child is born is called la couvade, and traces of it... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - South America - 1910 - 512 pages
...practice. "No sooner," he says, "do you hear that the wife has borne a child, than you will see the Abipone husband lying in bed, huddled up with mats and skins,...viands. You would swear it was he who had had the child. . . . They are fully persuaded that the sobriety and quiet of the father is effectual for the well-being... | |
 | Jane Johnstone Christie - Women - 1912 - 348 pages
...bed huddled up with mats and skins, lest some rude breath of air should touch him, fasting, keeping in private, and for a number of days abstaining religiously...certain viands ; you would swear it was he who had the child." Another traveller among native peoples says that on one occasion he was going up a river... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1871 - 594 pages
...recent work on the Origin of Civilization, speaks of a curious custom very widely spread among savages of all regions, by which, on the birth of a baby,...from certain viands ; you would swear it was he who Lad had the child. I had read about this in old times, and laughed at it, never thinking I could believe... | |
 | Lillian Eichler Watson - Etiquette - 1924 - 912 pages
...that a woman has borne a child, than you see the husband lying in bed, huddled up with mats and skins, fasting, kept in private, and for a number of days...certain viands; you would swear it was he who had the child. ... I had read about this in old times, and laughed at it, never thinking I could believe... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 448 pages
...husband lying in bed, huddled up with mats and skins, lest some ruder breath of air should touch him, and for a number of days abstaining religiously from...child. * * * I had read about this in old times, and langhed at it, never thinking I could believe such madness; and I used to suspect that this barbarous... | |
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