THE END PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY R. CLAY AND SONS, LTD., BRUNSWICK STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
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Westermarck, Edward
Virginity, required of priestesses, ii. 406–408; religious veneration of, 409–411, 429; not required of a bride, ii. 422–424, 440, 441, 444–446; required of unmarried women, ii. 424–442; the preference given by men to, ii. 434–437, 440
“Virtue,” analysis of the concept, i. 147–150
Virtue, transference of, i. 98
Vivisection, ii. 510, 512, 514
Volitions, as subjects of moral judgments, i. 202–210; as a source of non-moral retributive emotions, i. 314–319
—— absence of, a subject of moral judgment, i. 210–214; a cause of non-moral retributive emotions, i. 317–319
WAGER of battle, i. 306, 504– 507
War, i. 331–382; provoked by a homicide, i. 33; humanity towards enemies in, i. 335, 336, 342–344, 369, 370, 558, ii. 711; private, i. 355–358; human sacrifices offered in, i. 440, 441, 447 n. 5, 449; ending in a duel, i. 497 sq.; destruction of property in, ii. 25 sq.; seizure of property in, ii. 26, 27, 38, 58 sq.; deceit in, ii. 94, 106–108, 112; the future state of persons who have fallen in, ii. 237, 521, 694, 697, 704, 708; burial of persons who have fallen in, ii. 239; considered a nobler occupation than labour, ii. 272–274, 278, 282; fasting after a reverse in, ii. 315; a cause of polygyny, ii. 389, 391; prevalence of homosexual love among peoples addicted to, ii. 467, 479, 752
War, prisoners of, treatment of, i. 336, 343, 422; sacrificed to gods, i. 339, 441, 450, 452, 467; to the dead, i. 472, 474; bodily injuries inflicted upon, i. 519 sq.; enslaved, i. 674, 675, 677, 681–686, 688–691, 695, 701, 715; ransom accepted for, i. 701; eaten, ii. 554, 561, 578
Water, human sacrifices offered for the purpose of getting drinking, i. 451sq.
White men, atrocities committed by, among coloured peoples, i. 370 sq.; coloured persons not accepted as witnesses against, i. 429; their demoralising influence upon savages, i. 548, 549, 571 sq., ii. 2, 126–129, 424, 735; injuries inflicted by coloured persons upon, i. 713 sq.; prohibited from marrying coloured persons, i. 714; looked down upon by savages, ii. 171 sq.; taken for spirits, ii. 590
Widowers, suicide committed by, ii. 232, 233, 235sq.; fasting of, ii. 299–301; second marriages of, prohibited or condemned, ii. 412, 451
Widows, sacrifice of, i. 472–474, ii. 450 sq.; suicide committed by, i. 473 sq., ii. 232, 234, 235, 241, 242, 244, 247; prohibited from remarrying, i. 475, ii. 450 sq.; rules of inheritance relating to, ii. 45, 47 55 sq.; fasting of, ii. 298–301; priests forbidden to marry, ii. 412, 420
Will, the, as the subject of moral judgment, ch. ix. (i. 217–248), i. 214–216, 310–314; as a cause of non-moral retributive emotions, i. 315, 319. See Free-will
Wills, ii. 43, 53; the sacredness attached to, ii. 519, 541, 552
Wine, superstitious notions concerning, i. 278, 281, ii. 344, 345, 591sq.; prohibition of, ii. 341–345; after a death, ii. 302, 305; in honour of the sun, ii. 312
Wishes, deliberate, as subjects of moral judgments, i. 206sq.
Witchcraft, ii. 649–652; punishment of, i. 45, 189, 190, 492, ii. 650–652. See Magic
Witches, lunatics burned as, i. 273; old women regarded as, i. 620; addicted to homosexual practices, ii. 484 n. 1; the custom of swimming, ii. 690. See Witchcraft
Wives, the subjection of, ch. xxvi. (i. 629–669); punished if convicted of a design to kill their husbands, i. 245; crimes committed by, in the presence of their husbands, i. 284; husbands killing their, i. 418, 419, 631; killing their husbands, i. 419 sq.; acquired by duels, i. 499, 500, 503; husbands inflicting bodily injuries upon their, i. 514–516, 631; the duty of husbands to protect and support their, i. 526–529, 532 sq.; lending of, to guests or others, i. 575, 593, ii. 752; cursed by their husbands, i. 626; sold as slaves by their husbands, i. 675, 684; proprietary rights and incapacities of, i. 632, 637–641, 643, 645, 661, ii. 28–31, 41, 57; belief in a mysterious bond of sympathy between husbands and, ii. 205; suicide committed by husbands on the death of their, ii. 232, 233, 235 sq.; fasting of husbands on the death of their, ii. 299–301; adultery committed by, ii. 397, 447–455; of gods, ii. 412–414; priests forbidden to marry divorced, ii. 420; exchange of, ii. 752; eaten by their husbands, ii. 555. See Conjugal affection, Marriage, Widows
Wizards. See Magicians
Wolf’s flesh, abstinence from, ii. 320, 322, 327
Women, the position of, ch. xxvi. (i. 629–669); rape committed upon, i. 187, 188, 290, 311, 521, ii. 437, 438, 633, 679; punished by being burned alive, i. 188; treatment of, in war, i. 335, 336, 342, 343, 369 sq.; killing of, i. 418–421; not allowed to be beaten, i. 514; the evil eye of, i. 592; regarded as versed in magic, especially when old, i. 620, 666–668; the occupations of, i. 633–637; the sexual impulse of, i. 657 sq., ii. 435; ideas held about, i. 661–669, ii. 192; the future state of, i. 662 sq., ii. 673; of such as have died in child-birth, ii. 238 n. 3, 678; menstruous, i. 663; ii. 307 n. 2, 538 n. 2, 586; regarded as unclean, i. 663–666, ii. 538 n. 2; forbidden to enter sacred places, i. 664, 665, ii. 752; to offer sacrifices, i. 664 sq.; to pray, i. 664, 667 n. 1; curses of, i. 668; serving as asylums, i. 668 sq.; proprietary rights and incapacities of, i. 661, ii. 28–30, 41, 57; rules of inheritance relating to, ii. 44, 45, 47, 48, 55; addicted to falsehood, ii. 76, 113; to suicide, ii. 232; politeness to, ii. 152; certain foods forbidden to, ii. 320 sq.; celibacy and continence of religious, ii. 406–414, 419–421; married to gods, ii. 412–414; chastity of unmarried, i. 49, ii. 422–446, 675; coyness of, ii. 435 sq.; homosexual practices between, ii. 464, 465, 752; the lack of accessible women a cause of homosexual practices between men, ii. 466 sq.; their mental inferiority a cause of pederasty, ii. 470 sq.; treatment of the dead bodies of, ii. 526, 527, 549; forbidden to eat human flesh, ii. 554, 555 n., 573, 575; refuge denied to kidnappers of, ii. 633.
See Daughters, Mother, Wives, Widows
Work. See Labour
World, renunciation of the, ii. 361–363
“Wrong,” analysis of the concept, i. 134
YOUNG PERSONS, certain foods forbidden to, ii. 319sq. See Children, young