Note 17 — Chapter XVII · THE KILLING OF PARENTS, SICK PERSONS, CHILDREN—FETICIDE
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Among the Omahas there have been a few cases of parricide caused by drunkenness (Dorsey, ‘Omaha Sociology,’ in Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethn. iii. 369). A Chukchi killed his father for charging him with cowardice and awkwardness (Sarytschew, ‘Voyage of Discovery,’ in Collection of Modern and Contemporary Voyages, vi. 51). In Lánda “it is no uncommon thing for a son to murder his father in order to step into his shoes” (Emin Pasha in Central Africa, p. 230). See also Wilson and Felkin, Uganda, i. 224.