JUDAICA • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Judaica

... generally by the chief, often by some old man, who receives a fee from the parents: the thumb nails are long, and are used after the Jewish fashion:[FN10] neat rum with red pepper is spirted from the mouth to "kill wound." It is purely hygienic, and not balanced by the excisio Judaica, Some physiologists consider the latter a necessary complement of the male rite; such, however, is not the case. The Hebrews, who almost everywhere retained circumcision, have, in Europe at least, long abandoned excision. ...

— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton