Hence too we can understand why an ancient Roman law, attributed to King Tullus Hostilius, prescribed that, when incest had been committed, an expiatory sacrifice should be offered by the pontiffs in the grove of Diana.
For we know that the crime of incest is commonly supposed to cause a dearth; hence it would be meet that atonement for the offence should be made to the goddess of fertility.
Similar cases of incest with a daughter are reported of many ancient kings.
May not the same rule of descent have furnished a motive for incest with a daughter?
The riddle betrays to him the abominable fact that the Princess is living in incest with her own father.
He even goes so far as to accuse him of incest and adultery in his private life.
The Secret of Oedipus's Incest and Murder revealed.
The father as well as the two brothers were suspected of incest with Lucretia.
But I cannot accept these views, seeing that incest is held in abhorrence by savages such as those of Australia and South America (17/28.
It has been clearly shown by Mr. Huth that there is no instinctive feeling in man against incest any more than in gregarious animals.
He supposes that, "at the beginning of societies of men, incest was not prohibited .
Pirrauru is no more a survival of and a proof of primitive promiscuity, than is the legalized incest of ancient Egypt or ancient Peru.
Again, with every detail of name and place, he dwelt upon the horrible fact that public incesthad been enforced by the sentries--brother with sister, and father with daughter.
In dealing with the question of sexual selection in man various writers have been puzzled by the problem presented by that abhorrence of incest which is usually, though not always so clearly marked among the different races of mankind.
The abhorrence of incest indicates that even the sexual attraction to people of the same stock has its limits, for it is not strong enough to overcome the sexual indifference between persons of near kin.
The Abhorrence ofIncest in Relation to Sexual Selection.
The explanation of the abhorrence to incestis really, however, exceedingly simple.
The Abhorrence of Incest and the Theories of its Cause.
The fact that even in Europe the abhorrence to incest is not always strongly felt is brought out by Bloch, Beiträge zur Ætiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis, Teil II, pp.
We may take it up another time, and follow Mr. Froude through his ingenious attempts to show that Anne must have been guilty of incest and adultery, or else--dreadful alternative!
In prejudice to incest were now opposed the two most powerful passions in human nature, sexual desire, and a love of material gain, and the successful barter of a sister for another man's sister satisfied both.
We have seen in a past chapter that it was actually to the interest of senior male group-members, while incest reigned, that this condition of things should endure.
Then prerogative in incest would gradually decay, for strange to say no vestige of law in avoidance can be traced.
Exceptional cases of permitted incest in chiefs and kings.
Thus a resolution of the problem of decay of incest would seem as far off as ever.
Thus did the custom of paternal incest disappear, and so completely as not to leave a trace of its passage in recognised usage among actual peoples.
Whilst parentalincest ruled as the custom, each group must have been isolated from and hostile to every other.
We may now renew our affirmation that paternal incest as a custom, is no longer generally recognised anywhere.
But it is in special relation to the further movement in advance implied in the friendly aggregation of groups into a tribe that the effects of paternal incest would be most fatally felt.
This is the more likely, as Caligula published aloud that his mother was born from the incest of Augustus with Julia.
A woman guilty of incest received no punishment, but the guilty man was deported to an island.
If the incest involved adultery, the woman was of course held on that charge.
In the United States incest is not an indictable offence at common law, but, generally speaking, it has been made punishable by fine and imprisonment by state legislation.
The act does not apply to Scotland, incest being punishable in Scots law.
In England incest formerly was not generally treated as a crime, although, along with other offences against morals, it was made punishable by death in 1650.
The act also makes an attempt to commit the offence of incest a misdemeanour, punishable by imprisonment for not more than two years with or without hard labour.
In "A King and No King," the love of Arbaces for his supposed sister furnishes many entanglements, and it is not until the end of Act V that we know that the princess is not his sister, and the tragedy of incest is resolved into romance.
It recalls the tragedies before 1642, with their heroic love after the style of Beaumont and Fletcher, their horrors and incest following the Websterian school, and their emulation of famous passages in Shakespeare.
The poet who shrank from comedy as from a wicked thing and who thought a story of incest possible in a London theatre, had much to learn before he could master the stage.
Deeply impressed by the current tradition about Beatrice Cenci, he made this story of incest and parricide the expression of his view of life and history as a conflict between tyranny and downtrodden innocence.
Do let us hear all about it, my dear Count, it will excite us all to renewed efforts, as incest always does.
The incest of her son upon the immediate fuck of her husband was, she said, the most stimulating to her excessive lust of anything I could possibly do.
We congratulated him on finding so delicious a bit of incest to his hand on his return to his country.
Our second double couplings were: myself in my aunt's cunt, which incest stimulated uncle to a stand, and he took to his wife's arse while her nephew incestuously fucked her cunt.
Shelley in his portrait of Francesco Cenci has drawn a man in whom cruelty and incest have become appetites of the distempered soul; the love of Giovanni and Annabella in Ford's tragedy is rightly depicted as more imaginative than sensual.
In his Thebais, Oedipus's Incestis reported at large, but without any choaking Description.
For example where the Incest of Oedipus is described,[52] the Offensiveness of the Idea is screen'd off and broken by Metaphorical and distant Expressions.
Siegmund pulls the sword out, and commits incest with his sister.
He is a son born from the incest of brother with sister (Siegmund with Sieglinda), and has been brought up in this wood by the gnome.
That he might marry his mistress Waldrade, Lothair accused his wife Thielberga of committing incest before her marriage with her brother, abbot Hucbert, and of having obtained abortion to conceal her wickedness.
Had she committed incest with her brother after the separation of 1816?
Lord Lovelace, on Lady Byron's authority, states that between August 31 and September 14 (the precise date is not given) Augusta confessed to Lady Byron that she had committed incest with her brother previous to his marriage.
Her traducers at first whispered, and afterwards openly stated, not only that she had committed incest with her brother, but that she had employed her influence over him to make a reconciliation with his wife impossible.
Lushington that incest had taken place, and he warned Lady Byron against any personal intercourse with Mrs. Leigh.
It was said that she would perpetuate herself by the incestfrom which she sprang.
He brought into sharp outline the spiritual incest of the confessor, though he modestly refrained from specifying how far he had carried his profligacy.
Exile was inflicted for incest with a daughter; disinheritance for incest with a stepmother or for repeated unfilial conduct.
Incest with a daughter-in-law, if she was his son’s full wife, was apparently punished by his being drowned.
M321) Incest on the part of a man with his own daughter involved his banishment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
