is part of Hinduism. Also features prominently in ultra-orthodox (Haredi) Judaism, and maybe the orthodox kind too. Also is baked into Islam. And I have feeling it’s in some strains of Buddhism, but I’d have to check on that. (Don’t they have “menstrual huts” in some Buddhist countries, where females are banished to huddle among the rats and snakes in zero-degree weather with a bucket to crap in, for one week a month?). I don’t actually know what Christianity says about periods – which makes me wonder if it’s less backward and superstitious and misogynist than the others. Huh.
