Note 541 — Chapter IV · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—end The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem
Joseph Ward Swain translation
Thus at the birth of a child, a tree is planted which is cared for piously; for it is believed that its fate and the child's are united. Frazer, in his Golden Bough, gives a number of customs and beliefs translating this same idea in different ways. (Cf. Hartland, Legend of Perseus, II, pp. 1-55.)