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.