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With regard to Indian erotic art generally, and more especially Vatsyayana, who appears to have lived some sixteen hundred years ago, information will be found in Valentino, "L'Hygiène conjugale chez les Hindous," Archives Générales de Médecine, Ap. 25, 1905; Iwan Bloch, "Indische Medizin," Puschmann's Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, vol. i; Heimann and Stephan, "Beiträge zur Ehehygiene nach der Lehren des Kamasutram," Zeitschaft für Sexualwissenschaft, Sept., 1908; also a review of Richard Schmidt's German translation of the Kamashastra of Vatsyayana in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1902, Heft 2.
At night she studied some canonical work, by day she occupied herself with ceremonies and music. Max Bartels, "Isländischer Brauch," etc., Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1900, p. 65. A summary of the customs of various peoples in regard to pregnancy is given by Ploss and Bartels, Das Weib, Sect.
On the frequency of bestiality, from one cause or another, in the East, see, e.g., Stern, Medizin und Geschlechtsleben in der Türkei, bd. ii, p. 219. For an example of the primitive confusion between the intercourse of women with animals and with men see, e.g., Boas, "Sagen aus British-Columbia," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, heft V, p. 558.
Wetzstein's earlier record of similar folk-songs appears in Delitzsch's Commentary on Canticles Hohelied und Koheleth, 1875 and also in the Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie, v, p. 287.
See. e.g., Papillault, Bulletin Société d'Anthropologie, 1899, p. 446. Guinard, Art. "Castration," Richet's Dictionnaire de Physiologie. J. Whitridge Williams, Obstetrics, 1903, p. 132. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1878, p. 19. C. Pitre, Medicina Populare Siciliana, p. 47.
Thus among the Swahili it is on the third day after marriage that the bridegroom is allowed, by custom, to complete defloration, according to Zache, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1899, II-III, p. 84. De l'Amour, vol. ii, p. 57. Robert Michels, "Brautstandsmoral," Geschlecht und Gesellschaft, Jahrgang I, Heft 12.
As to the burning discs at the spring festivals, see above, pp. 116 sq., 119, 143. Op. cit. ii. 260 sq., iii. 936, 956, iv. 2. p. 360. Op. cit. ii. 260. Op. cit. iv. i. p. 242. W. von Schulenberg, in Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Jahrgang 1897, pp. 494 sq.
The use both of horses and of chariots by royal personages may often have been intended to prevent their sacred feet from touching the ground. Satapatha Brâhmana, translated by Julius Eggeling, Part iii. Letter of Missionary Krick, in Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, xxvi. pp. 86-88. Pechuel-Loesche, "Indiscretes aus Loango," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, x. pp. 29 sq.
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