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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 380 — Chapter II · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Totemic Animal and Man

Joseph Ward Swain translation

Even this is not always the case. An Arunta of the Mosquito totem must not kill this insect, even when it bothers him: he must confine himself to driving it away (Strehlow, II, p. 58; cf. Taplin, p. 63).

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