CHAPTER VII

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EDUCATION, MARRIAGE, CONCUBINAGE, CHILDBIRTH, AND BAPTISM.

Education of the Nahua Youth -- Manner of Punishment -- Marriage Preliminaries -- Nuptial Ceremony -- Observance after Marriage -- Mazatec, Otomí, Chichimec, and Toltec Marriages -- Divorce -- Concubinage -- Ceremonies Preliminary to Childbirth -- Treatment of Pregnant Women -- Proceedings of Midwife -- Superstitions with regard to Women who Died in Childbed -- Abortion -- Baptism -- Speeches of Midwife -- Naming of Children -- Baptism among the Tlascaltecs, Mixtecs, and Zapotecs -- Circumcision and Scarification of Infants 240

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