[Blessings], materialistic conception of, i. [98], [562];
pronounced by recipients of gifts, i. [561]–565;
gods appealed to in, i. [562], [564] sq., ii. [686], [731];
of strangers, i. [581]–584, ii. [446];
of parents, i. [621]–627;
of old persons, i. [626];
in salutations, ii. [151]
[Blood], effusion of, at funerals, i. [26], [27], [476], ii. [544], [545], [547];
abstinence from, i. [187], ii. [334] sq.;
as a religious rite, i. [470] sq., ii. [294], [557];
pollution of, i. [225], [232], [233], [375]–382, ii. [256 sq. n. 2], [262], [714];
shedding of, prohibited in sacred places, i. [380], ii. [635];
offered to the dead, i. [475] sq.;
drunk or licked in blood-revenge, i. [483] sq.;
as a conductor of curses, i. [586], [587], [591], ii. [69], [118]–121, [208], [209], [566], [567], [618]–622, [687]–689;
primitive ideas concerning, i. [664 n. 1];
oaths taken upon, ii. [118]–121, [621], [622], [687]–689;
supernatural or medicinal effect ascribed to the partaking of human, ii. [564] sq.
See [Cannibalism]
—— [-covenant], the, ii. [206]–209, [566] sq.
—— -money. See [Compensation] for homicide
—— [-revenge], i. [477]–492, ii. [748];
collective responsibility in, i. [24], [25], [30]–36, [43];
vow of, i. [58];
restricted to the actual culprit, i. [71];
a cause of social disturbance, i. [182] sq.;
in cases of accidental injury, i. [217], [218], [231] sq.;
taken upon animals, i. [251]–253, [255] [256], [258];
upon lunatics, i. [271];
connection between inheritance and, ii. [54] sq.;
between the system of tracing descent and, ii. [211]
[Bodily] integrity, the right to, ch. xxii. (i. [511]–525);
of the dead, ii. [516] sq.;
of gods, ii. [602], [610]
[Boundaries]. See [Landmarks]
[Brother], killing of a, ii. [256 sq. n. 2].
See [Fraternal affection], [duties]
—— the elder, allowed to inflict corporal punishment upon the younger one, i. [515];
respect for, i. [605], [606], [614];
curses of, i. [626], ii. [703]
[Buffaloes], abstinence from the flesh of, ii. [320], [322];
prohibition of killing, for food, ii. [330]