The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life a Study in Religious Sociology

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, p. 24. A myth of this sort has been quoted above.
174 Elementary Forms of Religious Life Moreover, it still happens to-day that a father transmits his own totem to his children. So if we imagine that the collective totem had, in a general way, this same origin, we are assuming that the same thing took place in the past which is still observable to-day, ^ It is still to be explained whence the individual totem comes. The reply given to this question varies with different authors.
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...siders it a particular case of fetishism. Feeling himself surrounded on all sides by dreaded spirits, the individual experienced that sentiment which we have just seen Jevons attribute to the clan : in order that he might continue to exist, he sought some powerful protector in this mysterious world. Thus the use of a personal totem became established. ^ For Frazer, this same institution was rather a subterfuge or trick of war, invented by men that they might escape from certain dangers. It is known that according to a belie' which is very widespread in a large number of inferior societi j, the human soul is able, without great inconvenience, to quit the body it inhabits for a while ; howsoever far away it may be, it continues to animate this body by a sort of detached control.

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