Note 44 — Chapter III · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.
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It is hardly necessary to say that, as Sir J. Lubbock has shown, the worship of fetish stones prevails in all parts of the world.44 There is hardly a village in Northern India without a fetish of this kind, which is very often not appropriated to any special deity, but represents the Grâmadevatâ or Gânw-devî, or Deohâr, the collective local divine cabinet which has the affairs of the community under its charge.