ABSTRACT
Ordinary crime, homicide, hurt, theft, and adultery, are always looked on as wrongs against the individual, and the idea of crime as anti-social is conspicuously absent. Providing agreement could be reached the payment of blood-money has always been recognized and acceptable: it is paid in stock which is used for the purchase of wives. A girl might be handed over in place of cattle, but this was unusual, though a girl might be earmarked and part of her bride-price when she married handed over as blood-money. Blood-money recognized and acceptable, originally paid in stock or by handing over a girl. Blood-money for a woman is the same as normal bride-price, for a man practically twice as much. A curious point is that originally the blood-money was always paid to the rain chief, who would pass a little on to the dead man's brother; nowadays it is paid to the brother, but he sometimes passes it all to the rain chief.
