ians_, 21.

[1743] Martius, _Ethnog. Brasil._, 127.

[1744] _Ibid._, 693; Schomburgk, _Brit. Guiana_, II, 460.

[1745] Smyth, _Aborig. of Vict._, I, 129; II, 229.

[1746] Veth, _Borneo's Wester Afdeeling_, II, 283.

[1747] Ellis, _Ewe-speaking Peoples_, 208.

[1748] Paulitschke, _Ethnog. N.O. Afrikas_, I, 262; II, 151, 156.

[1749] Hearn, _Japan_, 321.

[1750] P. 250.

[1751] Geijer, _Svenska Folkets Hist._, I, 300.

[1752] von Haxthausen, _Transkaukasia_, 26, 29, 50.

[1753] Num. xxxv. 31.

[1754] Maurer, _Voelkerkunde, Bibel, und Christenthum_, I, 164.

[1755] 2 Sam. xiv. 7.

[1756] Deut. xxiv. 16; 2 Kings xiv. 6; Ezek. xviii. 19.

[1757] Wellhausen, _Skizzen und Vorarbeiten_, III, 182.

[1758] _Ibid._, 196.

[1759] Wellhausen, _Skizzen und Vorarbeiten_, III, 194.

[1760] W. R. Smith, _Relig. of the Semites_, 482.

[1761] The Hebrew law was, "The stranger that sojourneth with you
shall be unto you as the home-born among you" (Levit. xix. 34).

[1762] Proksch, _Blutrache bei den Arabern_, 18, 30, 33, 36, 51,
54.

[1763] Lane, _Mod. Egypt._, I, 295.

[1764] Wellhausen, _Skizzen und Vorarbeiten_, III, 194.

[1765] Proksch, _Blutrache bei den Arabern_.

[1766] Hanoteau et Letourneux, _La Kabylie_.

CHAPTER XIV

UNCLEANNESS AND THE EVIL EYE

Demonism and the aleatory interest.--Universality of primitive
demonism.--Uncleanness.--Female uncleanness.--Uncleanness in
ethnography.--Uncleanness in higher religions.--Uncleanness
amongst Jews.--Uncleanness amongst Greeks.--These customs
produced modesty and the subordination of women.--Uncleanness,
holiness, devotedness.--The evil eye; _jettatura_.--The evil
eye in ethnography.--Amulets against the evil eye.--Devices
against the evil eye.--Insult and vituperation against the evil
eye.--Interaction of the mores and the evil eye.

+556. Demonism and the aleatory interest.+ Uncleanness and the evil eye
are dogmatic notions, products of demonism. The dogmas are arbitrary. A
corpse is unclean and makes any one unclean who touches it. A baby is
not unclean. The evil eye brings bad luck, not pain or disease.
Uncleanness and the evil eye have each a field. Neither is of universal
application. The mores, starting out from primitive demonism, produced
these two dogmas as an adjustment of experie