Animal Superstitions and Totemism

N. W. Thomas
1900 Folklore  
Leusahn. My especial thanks are due to Dr. Feilberg for many citations from books inaccessible to me, and to Herr Jiihling for MS. contributions and the advance sheets of his valuable work, Tiermedizin. I wish also to acknow ledge my great indebtedness to Mr. Gomme; the Irish evidence in the first section is drawn entirely from his valuable papers in the Archseological Review, on which I based my further researches. A bibliography of the works most frequently quoted will be found at the end of
more » ... he article.] In view of the fact that many tribes have none but animal totems, the absence of totemistic plant superstitions would partly tell against my argument. Archaeological Review, iii., 217, 350 ff.
doi:10.1080/0015587x.1900.9719953 fatcat:ou4udam4ebdwpcasxoso7fyxly