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He was, and apparently remains, haunted by totemistic objects.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems so primitive, totemistic even, like cowry shells.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
The mother of Ossian in animal shape may be an example of an ancient Celtic totemistic survival.
From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans Wentz
Myths of this class are probably later than the period in which we presume the divine relationships of gods and animals to have passed out of the totemistic into the Samoan condition of belief.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
Sometimes a fish or a bird is carved on the statue, probably as a survival of old totemistic ideas, and meant to represent the totem animal of the ancestor or of his clan.
From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Felix Speiser
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