animistically

But in the earlier versions of the myth (i.e. the "Destruction of Mankind"), it was Hathor who was the "Eye of Re" and descended from heaven to destroy mankind with fire; she also was the vulture (Mut); and in the earliest version she did the slaughter with a knife or an axe with which she was animistically identified.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

No doubt the disposition of primitive peoples is to conceive everything mystically, or animistically, to use the language of ethnology, particularly where it concerns something strange.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various

Even worship of the dead cannot be entirely explained animistically as the cult of souls.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

If I understand him rightly, he looks on this as the proper and primitive explanation of all such rites, and denies that they need to be accounted for animistically, _i. e._ by assuming that riddance of evil spirits, or purification of any kind, is the leading idea in them.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

(b) Papyrus sceptre often carried by goddesses and animistically identified with them either as an instrument of life-giving or destruction.

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

(b) Papyrus sceptre often carried by goddesses and animistically identified with them either as an instrument of life-giving or destruction. (c) Conventionalized lily -- the prototype of the trident and the thunder-weapon. (d) A water-plant associated with the Nile-gods 180

The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

"Monads" -- animistically conceived units of which the entire universe, organic or inorganic, was held to be constituted -- were (by the fiat of

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892