Parricide, Roman punishment of, 52; guilt of, 61 Pasemhers, a tribe of Sumatra, 69 Pasir, a district of Borneo, 51 Patagonians, their fear of the dead, 111 _sqq._ Peasantry of Europe, their intellectual savagery, 170 _Pemali_, taboo, 27 Pepper put in eyes of corpse to blind ghost, 133 Perham, J., 47 Persephone, 36 Peru, the Yncas of, 15 _sq._, 173 _Petara_, Dyak name for deity, 47 Pig’s blood used in ceremonies of purification, 116 _sq._ Pigs used in expiatory ceremonies, 44 _sqq._ Physical causation, false notions of, 100 ---- infection supposed to be spread by unchaste persons, 109 ---- relationship supposed to exist between adulterer and injured husband, 104 _sq._ Plato on sanctity of landmarks, 37 Pollution, ceremonial, 93, 105; incurred by homicide, 115 _sqq._, 128 ----, dangerous, supposed to be incurred by unchastity, 109 Polynesia, authority of chiefs in, 7 _sqq._; taboo in, 20 _sqq._ _Pomali_, taboo, 27 _Pontianak_, ghost of woman who died in childbed, 137 _n._ {184} Precautions taken by homicides against the ghosts of their victims, 117 _sqq._, 123 _sqq._; against the ghosts of bad people, 132 _sq._; against ghosts of women dying in pregnancy or childbed, 133 _sqq._; taken by widows and widowers against the ghosts of their spouses, 142 _sqq._ Prehistoric ages, imperfections in the records of, 171 _sq._ Primæval man unknown, 163 _sq._ Primitive, relative sense in which the word is applied to existing savages, 163 _sq._ Private property, superstition as a prop of, 20 _sqq._ Propagation of animals and plants supposed to be affected by the relations of the human sexes, 99 _sqq._ Property, superstition as a support of private, 20 _sqq._; of the dead destroyed, 111 _sq._, 135 _Psanyi_, 122 Punans, the, of Borneo, 50 Punishments, severe, for sexual offences, 63 _sqq._, 96 _sqq._ Punjaub, the, 133 Purification for unchastity by means of blood, 44 _sqq._; for unchastity by means of water, 109; for homicide, 114, 115 _sqq._, 120 _sqq._, 123 _sqq._; and capital punishment, 151 _sq._ Queen Anne, 18 Queen Charlotte Islands, 107 Queen Draga of Servia, 97 Queensland, native tribes of, 72 _sqq._; their mutilation of the dead, 137 Rain, kings expected to give, 13 _sq._; failure or excess of, supposed to be caused by sexual immorality, 44, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 56 Rajah Brooke, 12 Rajamahal in Bengal, 45 Ramanandroany, a Malagasy deity, 31 Rape, punishment of, 66 Red paint put on homicides, 118, 124, 127 Regalia, sanctity of, 11 Relations by marriage, ceremonial avoidance of, 75 _sqq._ Religion supplies the new theoretical basis of sexual morality, 101; of one generation the superstition of the next, 170 _sq._ ---- and magic, their relations, 100 Renan, Ernest, on the menace to civilization, 170 Reproduction of men, animals, and plants, analogy between the, 99 _sq._ Rhodesia, Northern, 66, 79, 103, 120 Rhys, Sir John, quoted, 54 _n._ 2, 62 _sq._ Rio de Janeiro, 96