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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 381 — Chapter II · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Totemic Animal and Man

Joseph Ward Swain translation

Among the Kaitish and the Unmatjera (Nor. Tr., p. 160). It even happens that in certain cases an old man gives a young one of a different totem one of his churinga, so that he may kill the donor's totem more easily (ibid., p. 272).

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