cording to Codrington, the boy begins to
avoid his mother when he puts on clothing, and his sister as soon as she
is tattooed.[42] In the exclusive Nanburi caste of Travancore brothers
and sisters are separated at an early age.

Women are more often than not excluded also from religious worship on
account of the idea of their uncleanness. The Arabs in many cases will
not allow women religious instruction. The Ansayrees consider woman to
be an inferior being without a soul, and therefore exclude her from
religious services.[34] In the Sandwich Islands women were not allowed
to share in worship or festivals.[35] The Australians are very jealous
lest women should look into their sacred mysteries. It is death for a
woman to look into a Bora.[20] In Fiji women are kept away from worship
and excluded from all the temples.[9] The women of some of the Indian
hill-tribes may not sacrifice nor appear at shrines, nor take part in
religious festivals. In New Ireland women are not allowed to approach
the temples.[43] In the Marquesas Islands the Hoolah-hoolah ground,
where festivals are held, is taboo to women, who are killed if they
enter or even touch with their feet the shadow of the trees.[30] Women
are also excluded from the sacred festivals of the Ahts.[44] In the
Amazon region, the women are not even permitted to see the objects used
in important ceremonies. If any woman of the Uaupes tribe happens to see
the masks used in the tribal ceremony she is put to death.[45]

Crawley has explained the taboos on the sexes eating together and on the
cooking of food by women for men as due to the superstitious belief
that food which has come in contact with or under the influence of the
female is capable of transmitting her properties. Some southern Arabs
would die rather than accept food from a woman.[12] Among the old
Semites it was not the custom for a man to eat with his wife and
children. Among the Motu of New Guinea when a man is helega, he may not
eat food that his wife has cooked.[46] South Australian boys during
initiation are forbidden to eat with the women, lest they "grow ugly or
become grey."

It was probably some fear of the charm-weaving power of woman which lay
at the root of the rules which forbade her to speak her husband's name,
the implication being that she might use it in some incantation against
him. For instance, a Zulu woman was forbidden to speak her husband's
name; if she did so, she would be suspected of wi