Magic and Religion

by Andrew Lang

[3] Jevons, p. 85.

[4] Jevons, pp. 85-87.

[5] Spencer and Gillen, pp. 15, 515.

[6] Ibid. p. 517.

[7] Spencer and Gillen, pp. 222, 246.

[8] The Arunta eating of the totem, at the magic ceremony, is not religious. Mr. Jevons, however, adduces it as proof of 'the existence of the totem-sacrament,' surviving 'in an etiolated form.' But what proof have we that the totems were once 'totem gods,' or in any way divine, among the Arunta? Jevons, 'The Science of Religion,' International Monthly, p. 489, April 1901.

[9] Memories of the Months, 1900, pp. 132, 133.

[10] Spencer and Gillen, chapter vi.

[11] G. B. ii. 318.

[12] Ibid.