The origin and development of the moral ideas

ii. 593;

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to malignant magical agency, i. 317, ii. 531 _sq._; regarded as a divine punishment, i. 274 _sq._; as a punishment inflicted by a saint, ii. 628

Lunatics, injuries committed by, i. 189, 269-277, 298, 299, 316, 317, 319; objects of religious reverence, i. 270 _sq._, ii. 590; burned as witches, i. 273

Luxury, ii. 266

Lying. See Truth, regard for

Lynching, i. 91

MADNESS. See Lunacy

Magic, regarded as a cause of death, i. 24, 29, ii. 534, 651; as a cause of lunacy, i. 317, ii. 531 _sq._; expertness in, attributed to strangers, i. 584; to old persons, i. 619 _sq._; to women, i. 620, 666-668; the position of slaves influenced by the dread of, i. 716; fasting in connection with, ii. 293 _sq._; definitions of, ii. 584, 753; attitude of religion towards, ii. 649, 650, 652, 753; its influence on moral ideas, ii. 696; supposed to influence the future state of men, ii. 700, 701, 706, 709, 710, 712. See Blessings, Blood, Charms, Cross, Cross-roads, Curses, Evil eye, Knots, _L-[(]ahd_, _L-[(]âr_, Magicians, Oaths, Ordeals, Prayer, Purificatory ceremonies, Sacrifice, Sexual intercourse (as a magical or religious rite), Spitting, Transference, Witchcraft

----, hom[oe]opathic, ii. 446 n. ^7, 753

----, sympathetic, i. 589 _sq._, ii. 204, 205, 209 n. ^5, 546, 566, 643

Magicians, curses of, i. 563; sexual intercourse with, i. 593 n. ^1; abstain from certain foods, ii. 322, 327; purificatory ceremonies of, ii. 352; celibacy compulsory on, ii. 405 _sq._; conjugal faithfulness compulsory on persons who wish to become,