Primitive Love and Love-Stories

Chapter 81

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Cannibalism: Australian.

Capture of brides: (See Marriage).

Caribs: Columbus on; _Jus primae noctis_; Women as drudges.

Caroline Islanders: Tattooing.

Chansons de Geste: Courting by women.

Charms.

Chastity and unchastity.

Cherokees: Immoral.

Cheyennes: Protection against men; Girls as merchandise.

Chinese: Hiding women's feet; Feminine coercion to marriage; Pitiable condition of women; Love considered immoral; Why deform women's feet; Marriage restrictions.

Chinooks: Painting; Unchaste; Position of women; Love-songs.

Chippewas: Husband and wife; Lending wives; Cruelty to women; "Choice"; Love-powders; No love.

Chippewyans: Unchaste; Love and drums.

Chittagong Hill Tribes: Capacity for love.

Choice: Prevention of; New Zealand; Indians; Wild tribes of India; Hindoos.

Christianity: Vs. natural selection; Prayer; Encourages feminine virtues; Ideal of love.

Cleanliness: Indifference to.

Coarseness: An obstacle to love.

Comanches: Utilitarian marriages; Cruel jealousy; Filthy; Lower than brutes; Enforce chastity on wives.

Congo: Ornaments as fetiches; Mourning; Wives esteemed as mothers only; "Poetic love" on.

Coreans: Contempt for women.

Corpulence versus beauty.

Corrobborees.

Courage: Mutilation a test of.

Courtship: Greenland; Creeks; Zulu; Australian; Torres Islands; Dyaks; New Zealand; Apaches; Omahas; Curiosities of Indian; Bhuiyas; Hindoo; Greek.

Coyness: (See Table of Contents).

Creeks: Masculine women; Deceptive modesty; Immoral; Women as slaves; Contempt for women; Choice and marriage; Suicides.

Crees: Unchastity.

Cruelty: In women; An obstacle to love; Of Indians: Of Hindoos; Of Greeks; (See Women, maltreatment of).

Dahomans: Signs of grief; Compulsory mourning; Amazons.

Dakotas: Honorable polygamy; Similarity of sexes; Gallantry; War-decorations; Paint; Uncleanly; Lower than brutes; Market value of chastity; Maltreatment of squaws; Sorrows of women; Disposal of girls; Honeymoon; Suicide; Love-charms; Courtship; Love-poems; A love-story.

Damaras: Lack of sympathy; Uncleanly; Temporary marriages.

Decorations, personal.

Delawares: Treatment of squaws; Suicide.

Dyaks: Head-hunters; Gallantry; Scars and courage; Charms of women; Morals; Courtship; Fickle and shallow passion; Love-songs.

Dying for love.

Egyptians: Obscenity in tombs; Love; Child-wives.

Elopements: Philosophy of Australian; Why Indians elope.

Eskimos: No morality or chastity; Not modest or coy; Ungallant; Risking life for a woman; Assaults; Mutilations; Tattooing; Tattoo marks and husbands; Filthy; "Love-unions;" Capacity for love.

Esthetic sense: (See Beauty).

Esthonians: Mock coyness.

Fashion and mutilation.

Females: Kinship thorough.

Feminine ideals: Superior to masculine; Encouraged by Christianity; Greek ignorance of.

Fetiches.

Fijians: Murder a virtue; Infanticide; Preference; Similarity of sexes; Jealousy; Proposal by a girl; Feathers to attract attention; Eat useless wives; Choice; Cleanliness; Treatment of women; Modesty and chastity; Sentimentality; Love-poems; Serenades and proposals; Suicides and bachelors.

Fondness.

Fuegians: Marriage.

Gallantry: A lesson in; American Indians; Wild tribes of India; Greeks; Hebrews.

Gallas: Coarseness of.

Garos: Proposing by girls.

Gipsies: Incest.

Greeks: Hegel on love; Love in Homer; Wood, Shelley; Macaulay, Bulwer, Gautier; Sentimentality; No love of romantic scenery; Incest; Jealousy; Homeric women not coy; Women the embodiment of lust; Masculine coyness; Shy women; War and love; Mercenary coyness; Mixed moods in love; Amorous hyperbole; Artificial symptoms; Sympathy denounced by Plato; Estimate of women; Unchivalrous; Risking life for a woman; Suicide and love; Love turns to hate; Woman-love considered sensual; Attitude toward female beauty; Sensual love; Barrenness a cause of divorce; Chapter on Greek love; Champions of; Gladstone on the women of Homer; Achilles as a lover; Words versus actions; Odysseus, libertine and ruffian; Penelope as a model wife; Conjugal tenderness of Hector; Barbarous treatment of women; Love in Sappho's poems; Anacreon and others; Woman and love in AEschylus; In Sophocles; In Euripides; Romantic love for boys; Platonic love excludes women; Made impossible in Sparta; Preference for masculine women and beauty; Oriental costumes; Love in life and in literature; In Greater Greece; Seventeen symptoms; Alexandrian chivalry; The New Comedy; Theocritus and Callimachus; Medea and Jason; Poets and hetairai; No stories of romantic love; Romances; Marriage among.

Greenlanders: Indifferent to chastity; Courtship.

Guatemalans: Brides selected for men; Erotic philology.

Guiana: War-paint; Tattooing; Women as drudges; Marriage arrangements.

Harari: Amorous hyperbole; Love-poems.

Hawaiians: Infanticide; Nudity; Indifference to chastity; Incest; Similarity of sexes; Ungallant; Mutilations; Mourning; Personal appearance; Love-stories; Quality of love; Morals.

Head-hunters.

Heads: Moulded.

Hebrews: Women not coy; Champions for; Stories; No sympathy or sentiment; A masculine ideal of womanhood; Not the Christian ideal of love; Unchivalrous slaughter of women; Song of Songs.

Hector and Andromache.

Hero and Leander.

Hetairai.

Hindoos: (See India).

Honeymoon: Among Indians.

Hope and Despair.

Hottentots: Courtship; Uncleanly; Ugliness; Child-wives; Various details.

Hurons: Preference and aversion; Immorality; Woman man's mule; Old wives for young men.

Hyperbole.

Importance of Love: (See Utility).

Incest: (See Licentious Festivals); Horror of.

India: Hindoos: Immorality in religion; Idea of politeness; Of modesty; Incest; Mixed moods in love; Arousing pride; Sham altruism; Contempt for women; Ungallant; Impurity; Idea of beauty; Widow-burning; Conjugal "devotion,"; Barren wives discarded; Cruelty to infant wives; "Maiden's choice,"; Chapter on; Child murder and marriage; Parental selfishness; Below brutes; Contempt for women; Widows and their tormentors; Depravity; Symptoms of love: feminine; Masculine; Artificial symptoms; God of love; Dying for love; What Hindoo poets admire in women; Shrewd selfishness; Bayadères and princesses as heroines; Marriages of choice not respectable.

India: Wild Tribes: Religious sacrifices; Filthy; Practical promiscuity; Romantic customs; Choice; Courtship; Proposing by girls; Attachments.

Indians: (See American Indians).

Individual preference.

Infanticide.

Intelligence: Importance of, to beauty.

Iroquois: Feathers and rank; No love; Licentious festivals; Cruelty to mothers; Woman man's servant; Love the last product of civilization.

Jacob and Rachel.

Japanese: Concubines; Lover's pride; Contempt for women; No love-marriages; Tattooing.

Javanese: Marriage before puberty; No liberty of choice.

Jealousy: Rousseau on; Chapter on (See Table of Contents).

Jus primae noctis.

Kaffirs: Cattle versus women; Pride vs. love; Pride to aid love; Uncleanly; Child-wives; No free choice; Various details.

Kaffirs of Hindu-Kush: Unjealous.

Kamerun: Nudity; No individual preference; No love in.

Kandhs: Licentious festivals.

Klamath Indians: Erotic songs.

Korumbas, promiscuity.

Kukis: Unchastity.

Kwakiutl Indians: Love-songs.

Languages: Multiplicity of.

Latuka: Polygamy.

Lepchas: Promiscuity.

Levirate.

Licentious festivals; Kaffir; Australian (See Corrobborees); Hawaiians; American Indians; India.

Liking.

Longing.

Love, conjugal: Nature of; Mistakes regarding; African; Australian; Dyak; Fijian; Hawaiian; New Zealand; Indian; Hindoo; Greek.

Love-letters: African; Australian; Hawaiian.

Love: pathologic.

Love-poems: Turkish; Fijian; Somali; Esthonian; Hottentot; Harari; New Zealand; Indian; Hindoo; Song of Songs; Greek.

Love: Primitive.

Love: Romantic; A compound; The word; Last product of civilization; Importance of; What it is; Ingredients; Jealousy in; Power of; Hyperbole; Comic side of; Symptoms; Sympathy; Adoration; Actions versus words; Affection; Mental purity; Definition of; Why called romantic; Sentiment; Vanity of; Changed to conjugal love; Obstacles to; Baker on African; Zöller on African; Absent in Abyssinia; Among Bushmen; Hottentots; Kaffirs; Negroes; Gallas; Somals; Kabyles; Touaregs; Germs; Australian "affection,"; Sentimental touches; Dyak love; Fijian love; Tahitian love; Polynesian stories; Hawaiian love; Its violence compared with sensual passion; To be found in New Zealand?; Unchastity incompatible with; Indian "refined love,"; Does suicide prove love?; Philologic evidence; Indian specimens; Whole tracts of feeling unknown to savages; Unknown to Hindoos; To Hebrews; To Greeks; Utility of.

Madagascar: Unchastity.

Mahâbhârata.

Makololo: Mutilations.

Malavika and Agnimitra.

Mandans: Women not jealous; Not coy; Obliged to mourn; Apparent modesty; Lower than brutes; "Conjugal love,"; Brides sold.

Maoris (See New Zealanders).

Marriage: Polygamy more honorable than monogamy; Monopolism and monogamy; Chastity not valued in; Utilitarian; Wives as property; On trial; A farce; And corpulence; Why savages value wives; Of women, without choice (See Choice); In China; Love in Bushman; Why Australians marry; By exchange of girls; By elopement (See Elopements); Taboos; Of souls; By stratagem; Christian ideal vs. ancient Hebrew; In Greece; Plato's ideal; In Tonga; In Hawaii; Indians; In India; By capture and mock capture; By purchase; Before puberty; (See also Promiscuity).

Masculine selfishness: (See Selfishness).

Medea and Jason.

Mediaeval gallantry.

Melanesians: Morals.

Mexicans: Barrenness a cause of divorce; Practical promiscuity; Woman's inferior position; Marriage conditions; Aztek love-poems; Erotic philology.

Micronesians: Tattooing.

Militarism and feminine lack of coyness.

Mishmees: Unchastity.

Mixed Moods: (See Hope and Despair).

Modesty: Curiosities of; Deception; Absence of, etc. (See Chastity).

Modocs: Dangers of adultery; Why they marry; Marriage ceremony.

Mohammedans: Polygamy; Contempt for women.

Mojaves: Jewels and rank; Morals.

Monopolism.

Moors: Ideas of beauty; Ugly features.

Mordvins: Mock coyness.

Mosquitos: Lower than animals.

Mourning: Decorations; To order; For entertainment.

Murder: As a virtue.

Mutilations.

Nagas: Ungallant.

Nala and Damayanti.

Natchez: Lending wives; Unchaste; Treatment of squaws.

Natural selection: Replaced by love.

Navajos: Unchastity; Treatment of women; Courtship.

Negroes, African: Feminine aspect of men; Delight in torture; Scarification; Idea of beauty; No love among.

New Britain Group: Paying for a wife.

New Hebrides: Infanticide.

New Zealanders: Masculine women; Wooing-house; Decorations; Anesthetic; Object of tattooing; Filthy; Origin of the Maoris; Love-poems; Courtship; Morals.

Niam-Niam: Conjugal love.

Nicaraguans: Tattooing; Licentious festivals; Eating a rival.

Nudity: (See Modesty).

Obscenity: An obstacle to love.

Odysseus as a husband.

Old maids.

Omahas: Tribal marks; Tattooing; Courtship; Buying wives; And elopements; An idyl; Love-poems.

Oráons: Promiscuity; Courtship.

Oriental ideal of beauty; Sentimentality.

Osages: Tattooing; Unchaste.

Pacific Islands: Love on.

Paharias: Attachment.

Paiderastia [Greek].

Papuans: Nudity.

Pastoral love.

Patagonians: Adultery; Decorations; No esthetic sense; Licentiousness; Women as drudges; Marriages; A courtship.

Paul and Virginia.

Pawnees: Apathy of brides; Daughters as merchandise; Courtship.

Penelope as a model wife.

Perseus and Andromeda.

Persians: Cruel jealousy; Unjealous women; Amorous hyperbole; Love among; Impurity.

Peruvians: Mutilations; Sun virgins; Cruel to women; Marriage; Love-charms; Words to express love.

Philippine Islanders: Bisayos; Indifferent to chastity; Women not jealous.

Piutes: Nocturnal courtship.

Pocahontas, story of.

Polynesians: Gods; Infanticide; Proposals by women; Tattooing; Reasons for bathing; Beauty means fat.

Pride, amorous.

Priestesses.

Promiscuity, practical.

Proposing: By women; In Fiji; Silent; By Indians.

Puberty: Decorations and mutilations at; Marriage before (See Marriage).

Pueblos: Girls propose; Unchastity.

Purchase of brides: (See Marriage).

Purity, mental.

Race aversion.

Rebekah, the courting of.

Religion: No love in early; Fear; Blasphemy; Sacrifices; Immorality; Associated with.

Religious prejudices.

Romans: Refined sensual love; Mercenary coyness; Amorous hyperbole; Sham gallantry; Suicide and love; Terence and Plautus; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius and Ovid.

Romantic, meaning of.

Ruth and Boaz.

Sakuntala.

Samoans: Idea of modesty; Obscene conversation; Various traits; Chastity; Courtship pantomime; Love-stories; Personal appearance.

Samoyedes: selfish men.

Savitri.

Scarification.

Scenery, romantic.

Selfishness: (See Women, maltreatment of); Adoration; Sympathy; Gallantry; Affection.

Self-sacrifice.

Sensuality: Antipode of love; Fastidious; Is not love; Goethe's error; Appetite and longing; And sentimentality (See Chastity).

Sentiment, versus sentimentality.

Sentimentality.

Sentiments: How they change and grow.

Separation of the sexes.

Sexual characters, primary and secondary.

Sexual selection.

Sexuality, mental.

Singhalese: utilitarian marriage.

Sioux: (See Dakotas).

Social barriers to love.

Somali: Unjealous wives; Feathers; Fat versus beauty; A love-song; Child-wives; Barren women chased away; Absence of gallantry; Love-affairs.

Song of Songs.

Sorceresses.

Stories, incidents, and dramas: African; American Indian; Australian; Eskimo; Greek; Hawaiian; Hebrew; Indian (Hindoo and wild tribes); New Zealand; Oriental; Polynesian; Samoan; Tahitian; Tongan.

Suicide and love.

Sumatrans: Marriages; Selfish men; No choice.

Swedes: mock-capture.

Sympathy.

Syria: idea of modesty.

Taboos, sexual.

Tahitians: Tattooing; Indifference to chastity; Contempt for women; Compressed heads; Flowers and licentiousness; Mourning; Personal appearance; Depraved by white visitors?

Tasmanians: Charms; Mourning.

Taste, disputing about.

Tattooing.

Temple girls, Hindoo.

Thibet: Unchastity; Woman's wretched lot.

Thlinkeets: Exchanging wives; War-paint; Mutilations; Suicide.

Todas: Unjealous.

Tongans: Tattooing; Beads and vanity; Personal appearance; Were they civilized? Love of scenery.

Torres Strait Islanders.

Tribal marks.

Tupis: no jealousy.

Turks: Modesty; Love-song; Amorous hyperbole; Arousing pride; Coarseness; Lust versus love; Mourning to order.

Uganda: Nudity; Disposal of women.

Unchastity: (See Chastity).

Urvasi.

Utility of love.

Vasantasena.

Veddahs: Incest.

Virginity: Penetrative; Indifference to; (See Chastity).

Votyaks: Indifference to chastity; Mock capture;

War: An obstacle to love.

Whites: Did they corrupt savages?

Widows: Tormented in India; Burning of.

Winona's leap.

Wives: (See Marriage).

Women: Homage to priestesses; Domestic rule; Political rule; Is gallantry an "insult?" Pugnacious; Crueler than men; Woman's sphere; Maltreatment of and contempt for; Masculine women; No liberty of choice (See Choice).

Wooing: By women; (see Proposing).

Yucatan: War decorations; Tattooing.

Yumas: Immorality.