Marco Polo
translation: Henry Yule, Henri Cordier

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO
Volume II.
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COUVADE.

There is a paper on the subject in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (1911, pp. 546-63) by Hugo Kunicke, Das sogennante, "Mannerkindbett," with a bibliography not mentioning Yule's Marco Polo, Vinson, etc. We may also mention: De la "Covada" en Espana. Por el Prof. Dr. Telesforo de Aranzadi, Barcelona (Anthropos, T.V., fasc. 4, Juli-August, 1910, pp. 775-8).

L., p. 92 n.

I quoted Prof. E.H. Parker (China Review, XIV., p. 359), who wrote that the "Langszi are evidently the Szi lang, one of the six Chao, but turned upside down." Prof. Pelliot (Bul. Ecole franç. Ext. Orient, IV., July-Sept., 1904, p. 771) remarks: "Mr. Parker is entirely wrong. The Chao of Shi-lang, which was annexed by Nan Chao during the eighth century, was in the western part of Yun Nan, not in Kwei chau; we have but little information on the subject." He adds: "The custom of Couvade is confirmed for the Lao of Southern China by the following text of the Yi wu chi of Fang Ts'ien-li, dating at least from the time of the T'ang dynasty: 'When a Lao woman of Southern China has a child, she goes out at once. The husband goes to bed exhausted, like a woman giving suck. If he does not take care, he becomes ill. The woman has no harm.'"

L., pp. 91-95.

Under the title of The Couvade or "Hatching," John Cain writes from Dumagudem, 31st March, 1874, to the Indian Antiquary, May, 1874, p. 151:

"In the districts in South India in which Telugu is spoken, there is a wandering tribe of people called the Erukalavandlu. They generally pitch their huts, for the time being, just outside a town or village. (...)

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