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

Note 108 — Chapter III · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.

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Next comes the worship of the tool fetish, which, according to Sir A. Lyall, is “the earliest phase or type of the tendency which later on leads those of one guild or walk in life to support and cultivate one god, who is elected in lieu of the individual trade fetishes melted down to preside over their craft or trade interests.”108

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