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The origin and development of the moral ideas

Note 23 — Chapter XVII · THE KILLING OF PARENTS, SICK PERSONS, CHILDREN—FETICIDE

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von Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie Amerika’s, i. 126, 127, 393. von Eschwege, Brasilien, i. 231 sq. (Uerequenás). Among the Fuegians the practice in question seems to occur only accidentally (Bridges, in A Voice for South America, xiii. 206).

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