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  • noun Plural form of totemist.

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Examples

  • _They_ would doubtless have maintained that the cow was Gladstone's totem, or family crest, and that, like other totemists, he was forbidden to eat beef.

    In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878

  • For a nagual, as I have shown, is one thing and a totem is another; nor am I aware that Zulus are totemists.

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • I am not at all bigoted in the opinion that the Greeks may have once been totemists.

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • In Rome we do find traces of exogamy, as among totemists.

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • Incas, or that African and Indian and Asiatic totemists, erected 'sign - boards' anywhere, as the Ottawa writer assures us that the Ottawas do, or used to do.

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • For the use of beast-skins in such dances among totemists I cite Bancroft

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

  • Now, anthropologists are generally agreed, I think, that occasional sacrifices of and communion in the flesh of the totem or other sacred animals do occur among totemists. {84c} But Mr. Frazer and I both admit, and indeed are eager to state publicly, that the evidence for sacrifice of the totem, and communion in eating him, is very scanty.

    Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

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