animatistic

In like manner one portion of the savage explanation of nature may have been originally animistic, another part animatistic.

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The more general view that polytheistic and other gods are the elemental and other spirits of the later stages of animistic creeds, is equally inapplicable to Australia, where the belief seems to be neither animistic nor even animatistic in character.

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