Poverty, estimation of, i. 556, ii. 280 sq.;
a cause of uncleanliness, ii. 351;
monogamy associated with, ii. 392

Prayer, ii. 653–659;
for remission of sin, i. 49, 54, 55, 228 sq., ii. 654, 655. 72, 707;
purification preparatory to, i. 380 sq., ii. 352, 353, 358, 359, 415. 416, 418 sq.;
development of a curse or a blessing into a, i. 564 sq., ii. 66–68, 120–123, 658, 686–690, 731;
almsgiving connected with, i. 567 sq.;
forbidden to women, i. 664, 667 n. 1;
used as greeting, ii. 150;
fasting an appendage to, ii. 316 sq.;
magic efficacy ascribed to, ii. 353, 418, 419, 656–659, 706, 712;
continence a preparation for, ii. 417–419

Preparation, acts of, i. 243–246

Prescription, ii. 40, 41, 52 sq.

Pride, condemnation of, ii. 144 sq.
See Self-regarding pride

Priestesses, forbidden to marry or to have intercourse with men, ii. 406–408, 412–414, 420;
continence compulsory on women who wish to become, ii. 419;
prostitution of, ii. 443 sq.;
asylums, ii. 637 sq.;
prohibited from taking an oath, ii. 638

Priests, forbidden to take an oath, i. 58, ii. 638;
to engage in warfare, i. 348, 381;
to shed human blood, i. 381 sq.;
to take part in a capital charge, i. 381, 382, 493;
to engage in hunting, ii. 506;
the law of torture relating to, i. 523 sq.;
curses of, i. 563;
enslaving of children of incontinent, i. 700;
certain foods forbidden to, or rejected by, ii. 322, 329, 333, 338;
forbidden to marry and to have intercourse with women, ii. 405–409, 412, 414, 418–421;
eunuch, ii. 408, 414, 488 n. 6;
forbidden to contract a second marriage, ii. 412;
to marry widows, ii. 412, 420;
to marry harlots or divorced wives, ii. 420;
taboos imposed upon, ii. 417 sq.;
continence compulsory on persons who wish to become, ii. 419;
temporary continence compulsory on, ii. 419 sq.;
the punishment of unchastity in the daughters of, ii. 420;
represented as corrupters of domestic virtue, ii. 432;
their celibacy a cause of homosexual practices, ii. 467;
boys kept as, ii. 473;
used as temple prostitutes, ii. 473, 488;
cannibalism of, ii. 563, 574;
their residences asylums, ii. 630, 634, 637;
opposing sorcery, ii. 652;
regarded as manifestations of gods, ii. 657, 709;
encouraging the belief in the magic efficacy of prayer, ii. 658 sq.
See Benefit of Clergy; cf. Magicians

Primogeniture, ii. 45, 46, 48, 55 sq.

Promiscuity, the theory of, ii. 396

Promises. See Good faith

Property, the right of, ch. xxviii. sq. (ii. 1–71);
forfeiture of, as a punishment, i. 47, ii. 254;
acquired by a successful duel, i. 498, 503, ii. 9;
of wives, i. 632, 637–641, 643, 645, 661, ii. 28–31, 41;
of women, i. 661, ii. 28–30, 41;
of slaves, i. 677, 684, 688, cf. Peculium of slaves;
of the dead, i. 399, ii. 44, 518, 539 sq., see Inheritance, Wills;
of supernatural beings, ii. 626 sq.;
supernatural beings as guardians of, ii. 59–69, 669, 675–677, 679, 684, 686, 699, 700, 705, 714, 717, 732

Prostitution, i. 608, ii. 428–431, 437, 439–446;
religious, ii. 443–446, 488;
of men, ii. 459–462, 463, 476, 478, 488

Provocation, i. 290–298, 311, 316 sq.

Prudence, i. 560, 581, 715, ii. 52, 59, 114, 124, 176, 185, 265–268, 331, 332, 334. 335, 342, 428, 497, 539, 547, 548, 660

Puberty, girls at, ii. 307 sq.

Public approval, the prototype of moral approval, i. 9, 122, 129

—— disapproval, the prototype of moral disapproval, i. 9, 119–122

Pulse, abstinence from, ii. 322, cf. ii. 430 sq.

Punishment, inflicted on others than the culprit, i. 43–48, 69 sq.;
restricted to the culprit, i. 70–72;
essentially an expression of the moral indignation of the society which inflicts it, i. 79, 89–91, 169, 185, 198–201;
theories as to the proper object of, i. 79–91;
regarded as a means of eliminating the criminal, i. 80–82;
as a deterrent, i. 80–84, 88–91;
as a means of reforming the criminal, i. 80–91;
defined, i. 82, 169 sq.;
the limited efficiency of, as a deterrent, i. 90 n. 1;
a source of moral disapproval, i. 115;
the relation between indemnification and, i. 168 sq.;
among savages, i. 170–177;
transition from revenge to, i. 180–185;
the opinion that determent actually is or has been the chief object of, i. 185–200;
the increasing severity of, i. 186–198;
inflicted on criminals in public, i. 191 sq.;
of unintentional injuries, i. 219, 221–226, 231, 232, 235–240;
of attempts to commit crimes, i. 241–247, 374;
of acts of preparation, i. 243–246;
of bare intentions, i. 245;
inflicted on animals, i. 253–260, 264, 308;
on inanimate things, i. 261–264, 308;
of injuries committed by children, i. 265–269;
by old persons, i. 266 sq.;
by lunatics, i. 271–277, 298 sq.;
by idiots, i. 273;
in drunkenness, i. 279–282;
inflicted upon the offending member, i. 311, 312, 513, 518, 519, 521 sq., ii. 9, 13, 74, 84, 123 n. 1, 143 n. 1;
from a deterministic point of view, i. 320 sq.;
influenced by rank, i. 430–433, 491, 518, 519, 524, ii. 19, 20, 58, 142, 143, 448–450;
corporal, i. 520–525;
suicide committed out of fear of, ii. 233;
redeems the sufferer from punishment in a future existence, ii. 360;
inflicted on gods, ii. 610.
For various kinds of punishment see Banishment, Cannibalism (as a punishment), Emasculation, Mutilation, Outlawry, Property (forfeiture of), Serfdom (as a punishment), Shame (putting offenders to), Slavery (as a punishment)

Punishment in a future existence. See Future life

—— of death, i. 491–496;
among savages, i. 188–190, 195–197;
as a kind of human sacrifice, i. 440, 471 sq.;
suicide as an alternative to, ii. 243;
inflicted for a variety of crimes, i. 44–46, 171, 172, 174, 177, 186–197, 253, 254, 287, 306, 311, 312, 331, 383–386, 404, 407, 409, 412, 416, 419, 420, 423, 424, 429–433, 439, 440, 491, 492, 495, 496, 508, 509, 513, 516, 518, 685, ii. 4, 5, 7–9, 12–15, 19, 96, 140–142, 256 n. 2, 276, 331, 366–368, 378, 406–408, 420, 424–426, 428, 429, 431, 442, 447–450, 453, 474, 475 n. 10, 477–482, 497, 558, 640, 647, 650–652

Purificatory ceremonies, i. 53–57, 69, 233, 375–377, 379–381, 625, ii. 256 sq. n. 2, 257 n. 5, 294, 295, 328, 352–354, 358, 359, 415, 416, 472 n. 7, 476, 538, 545, 726

RAIN, human sacrifices offered for the purpose of producing, i. 449–451;
certain other methods of procuring, ii. 315, 361