CHAPTER VIII.

Totemism and Fetishism.

Devaks. Names derived from animals and plants. Sacred animals. Deities associated with animal worship. Worship of stocks and stones. Survivals of human sacrifice. Disease-curing stones. Respect shown to corn sieves, corn pounders, the broom and the plough. Fire worship 78

Animal worship.

Sacred animals and the legends and superstitions connected with them 83

Witchcraft.

Chetaks and Chetakins. 85