[25] Compare Spencer and Gillen, _Nat. Tr._, p. 554: "... a man's right to woman secured by means" of magic "is supported by the men of his own local group." Compare also the description of this method of charming away a woman in _Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. S. Australia_, vol. iv. p. 26, by F. Gillen. The second problem, viz. whether the distinction between the customary and religious rules and legal norms may be considered as well defined in Australia, is still more difficult to answer. The small differentiation of that society hardly allows any very clear and definite sociological distinctions. But, broadly speaking, it seems that the distinction between (1) a trespass, whose punishment is supernaturally entailed by its very committal; (2) a trespass, punished by ridicule and public contempt; and (3) a crime, punished by the decision of the community, acting as a whole, or by its central organs, or certain groups of it--that this distinction between sin, improper conduct and crime (as we can call those three categories) is quite well marked in different features of aboriginal social life. What might fully elucidate this question, would be a collection of facts, classified according to these categories.[26] [26] So _e. g._ there could be placed in the _first category_ different kinds of food taboos. In the Arunta, food procured or handled by certain relatives may not be eaten by a man; nor may be eaten any food in their immediate presence. Such food would disagree with the man. Spencer and Gillen, _Nat. Tr._, p. 469.--If certain food taboos were transgressed during initiation by the boys, their wounds would inflame. _Ibid._ p. 470.--Certain taboos must be observed during pregnancy both by the woman and her husband; if they were transgressed the sickness of the woman would be worse and the man would lose his skill in hunting. _Ibid._ p. 471.--Compare also Mitchell, ii. p. 29, and Wilhelmi, p. 176. If the man should transgress the mother-in-law taboo, his hair would prematurely grow grey, or he would soon become bald. This belief is very widespread. Howitt, _Nat. Tr._, p. 296. D. Mathews, p. 49. Mrs. Bates, p. 50. Compare also Waitz Gerland, p. 795, where different norms, enforced by supernatural punishment, are mentioned, and also MacGillivray, ii. 10, Eyre ii. 339, Stanbridge, p. 289. Different ceremonies and ordeals at mourning and burial are regulated by _custom_; the same thing may probably be said of some of the initiatory ordeals. Noncompliance would involve the general ridicule or contempt of the tribesmen: Spencer and Gillen, _Nat. Tr._, p. 510. As _crimes_ may be mentioned: transgression of the class rule as well in marriage as in sexual intercourse. Spencer and Gillen, _Nat. Tr._, p. 495, say that the usual punishment is death. Killing by magic: