Among the Cheyennes menstruous women slept in special lodges; the men believed that if they slept with their wives at such times, they would probably be wounded in their next battle.
The Arunta of Central Australia forbidmenstruous women to gather the irriakura bulbs, which form a staple article of diet for both men and women.
To prevent such a calamity women in general, not menstruous women only, are forbidden to enter the cattle enclosure; and more than that, they may not use the ordinary paths in entering the village or in passing from one hut to another.
Cattle-rearing tribes of South Africa hold that their cattle would die if the milk were drunk by a menstruous woman;(195) and they fear the same disaster if a drop of her blood were to fall on the ground and the oxen were to pass over it.
M78 Superstitions as to menstruouswomen in ancient and modern Europe.
M61 The reason for the seclusion of women at puberty is the dread of menstruous blood.
M63) In some Australian tribes the seclusion of menstruous women was even more rigid, and was enforced by severer penalties than a scolding or a beating.
AddEsth 14:16 Thou knowest my necessity: for I abhor the sign of my high estate, which is upon mine head in the days wherein I shew myself, and that I abhor it as a menstruous rag, and that I wear it not when I am private by myself.
EpJer 6:29 Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.
Would one in his wits think to make himself fine or acceptable to men by arraying himself in menstruous cloths, or by painting his face with dross and dung?
And hence, as I have said, all the righteousness they seek to accomplish is but as a menstruous cloth and filthy rags; therefore they are sinners still.
Among the Baganda tribes a menstruous woman is not permitted to come near her husband, cook his food, touch any of his weapons, or sit on his mats, bed, or seat.
All the ancient civilizations had such taboos upon the menstruous woman.
The avoidance of the menstruous woman is an even more widespread custom than the shunning of pregnancy, probably because this function was interpreted as a symptom of demonic possession.
In western Victoria a menstruous woman may not take anyone's food or drink, and no one will touch food that has been touched by her.
The ground of this seclusion of girls at puberty lies in the deeply engrained dread which primitive man universally entertains of menstruous blood.
The Greeks and Romans thought that a field was completely protected against insects if a menstruous woman walked round it with bare feet and streaming hair.
This offer was the effect of no merit, neither of congruity nor of condignity in the Jews; for they were like that wretched and menstruous infant, Ezek.
Lebanon, peasants of the, their dread of menstruous women, i.
Fish frightened or killed by proximity of menstruous women, i.
Bering Strait, their belief as to menstruous women, i.
Anyanja of British Central Africa, their dread of menstruous women, i.
Suk of British East Africa, their dread of menstruous women, i.
Fisheries supposed to be spoiled by menstruous women, i.
See also Evil Spirits Dene or Tinneh Indians, their dread and seclusion ofmenstruous women, i.
No good principles of obedience were in us, but all are corrupt, and have done abominable works, and all our righteousness is as a menstruous cloth; and though upright obedience could have been yielded, yet the law exacted perfect obedience.
There is nothing ye have, or can do, but it is a menstruous cloth, Isa.
Thy righteousness is as a vile garment, as a menstruous cloth, (Isa.
No unclean thing can enter into heaven, and he is trimming himself against that day, and setting apart all superfluity of naughtiness, and filthiness, and still all his righteousness is as menstruous rags.
Who casts these out of his sight as unclean and menstruous things?
They make that the covering of their nakedness and filthiness which is in itself as menstruous and unclean as any thing.
Dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the Indians of South and Central America.
Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty [The reason for the seclusion of women at puberty is the dread of menstruous blood.
Dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the tribes of Central and East Africa.
Dread and seclusion of menstruous women among the Tinneh or Déné Indians; customs and beliefs of the Carrier Indians in regard to menstruous women.
These are examples of the beneficent application of the menstruous energy.
In like manner among the Piapocos, an Indian tribe on the Guayabero, a tributary of the Orinoco, a menstruous woman is secluded from her family every month for four or five days.
The motive for the restraints so commonly imposed on girls at puberty is the deeply engrained dread which primitive man universally entertains of menstruous blood.
In some Australian tribes the seclusion of menstruous women was even more rigid, and was enforced by severer penalties than a scolding or a beating.
The true cause of this fleshy mole is due both to the man and from the menstruous blood in the woman both mixing together in the cavity of the womb.
Yet they have not the full perfection of health which other women enjoy, because they are not rightly purged of the menstruous blood and superfluous seed, which are the principal cause of most uterine diseases.
And that the menstruous blood is pure in itself, and of the same quality as that in the veins, is proved in two ways.
Others declare that it springs from the menstruous blood, but if these two things were granted, then virgins, by having their courses or through nocturnal pollutions, might be liable to the same things, which none have ever been yet.
Although there are many causes of the barrenness of women, yet the chief and principal are internal, respecting either the privy parts, the womb or menstruous blood.
And it is true that when it is out of it, it is nourished by the same; for the milk is nothing but the menstruous blood made white in the breast.
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman: Not eaten upon the mountains.
They have discovered the nakedness of their father in thee, they have humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous woman in thee.
Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it with their ways, and with their doings: their way was before me like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
She is shut up for several days in a small hut at a distance from her parents' house, and afterwards she is bound to sleep for a hundred days in one of the special houses which are provided for the use of menstruous women.
The Arunta of the same region forbid menstruous women to gather the irriakura bulbs, which form a staple article of diet for both men and women.
Among the Chippeways and other Indians of the Hudson Bay Territory, menstruous women are excluded from the camp, and take up their abode in huts of branches.
In Muralug, one of the Torres Straits Islands, a menstruous woman may not eat anything that lives in the sea, else the natives believe that the fisheries would fail.
In Brunswick people think that if a menstruous woman assists at the killing of a pig, the pork will putrefy.
Cattle-rearing tribes of South Africa hold that their cattle would die if the milk were drunk by a menstruous woman; and they fear the same disaster if a drop of her blood were to fall on the ground and the oxen were to pass over it.
For a like reason the Carrier Indians will not suffer a menstruous woman to cross the tracks of animals; if need be, she is carried over them.
The childbearing and menstruous women touch their sacrifices: knowing, therefore, by these things that they are not gods, fear them not.
And thou shalt defile the plates of thy graven things of silver, and the garment of thy molten things of gold, and shalt cast them away as the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
Sion hath spread forth her hands, there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded against Jacob, his enemies are round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Pliny says: "Certain it is, that if a menstruouswoman do no more but touch a Bee-hive, all the Bees will be gone and never more come to it again.
That is why hunters must avoidmenstruous women; if they do not, they will be unable to catch game.
M88 The taboos observed by sacred kings resemble those imposed on persons who are commonly regarded as unclean, such as menstruous women, homicides, and so forth.
As the garments which have been touched by a sacred chief kill those who handle them, so do the things which have been touched by a menstruous woman.
Among the Bribri Indians of Costa Rica a menstruous woman is regarded as unclean (bukuru).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "menstruous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
