animal-worship

• “The different Bechuana tribes are named after certain animals, showing probably that in former times they were addicted to animal-worship like the ancient Egyptians.”

  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

• “These curious relics of the animal-worship of former times scarcely exist among the Makololo.”

  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

• “Even in lands which have long given up animal-worship, wherever a beast is conspicuous or terrible, it becomes the subject of some marvellous tale.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “De Brosses 'work had raised again the enduring problem for eighteenth-century thought of how to explain the discomforting evidence for Egyp - tian animal-worship or worse, African fetish-worship.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “If we accept the animal-worship and sacrificial communion theory, many a”

  Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

• “In the recumbent wingless sphinx of Egypt we see anthropomorphic ideas of religion emerging out of the gross animal-worship of more primitive times.”

  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

• “If so animal-worship runs through the following stages: Man's close association with animal life fills his mental storehouse with composite notions — e.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “But this view, once quite common, is now generally abandoned, and fetishistic animal-worship is now considered as the true basis of the”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy

• “Herbert Spencer classes Totemism under animal-worship and says its explanation is found in the primitive custom of naming children after natural objects from some accidental circumstances or fanciful resemblance, and then in confounding these metaphorical names or nicknames with the real objects, i.e. ancestors, and consequently paying to the animals the same reverence they paid their ancestors.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

• “Loret maintains that Totemism existed among the early Egyptians, but evidently confounds this belief with animal-worship.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon

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