(_La Donna Delinquente_, p.
540.) Important as this factor is in the constitution of the emotion of
modesty, I need scarcely add that I regard so exclusive a theory as
altogether untenable.
[38] _Das Weib_, Ch. VI.
[39] For references as to a similar feeling among other savages, see
Westermarck, _History of Human Marriage_, p. 152.
[40] See e.g., Bourke, _Scatologic Rites_, pp. 141, 145, etc.
[41] Crawley, op. cit., Ch. VII.
[42] S, Reinach, _Cultes, Mythes et Religions_, p. 172.
[43] Tertullian, _De Virginibus Velandis_, cap. 17. Hottentot women, also
(Fritsch, _Eingeborene Suedafrika's_, p. 311), cover their head with a
cloth, and will not be persuaded to remove it.
[44] Wellhausen, _Reste Arabischen Heidentums_, p. 196. The same custom is
found among Tuareg men though it is not imperative for the women
(Duveyrier, _Les Touaregs du Nord_, p. 291).
[45] Quoted in _Zentralblatt fuer Anthropologie_, 1906, Heft I, p. 21.
[46] Or rather, perhaps, because the sight of their nakedness might lead
the angels into sin. See W.G. Sumner, _Folkways_, p. 431.
[47] In Moruland, Emin Bey remarked that women are mostly naked, but some
wear a girdle, with a few leaves hanging behind. The women of some negro
tribes, who thus cover themselves behind, if deprived of this sole
covering, immediately throw themselves on the ground on their backs, in
order to hide their nakedness.
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