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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 3 — Chapter III · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.

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Sir J. Lubbock derives the idea from the practice of naming persons and families after animals, but “in dropping the intermediate links of ancestor-worship and verbal misunderstanding, he has stripped the theory of all that lent it even an air of plausibility.”3

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