"Totemic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to exist somewhere, prodigious in size, though in shape and nature like his subjects. A belief prevails, vague, but perfectly apparent, that men themselves owe their first parentage to beasts, birds, or reptiles, as bears, wolves, tortoises, or cranes; and the names of the totemic clans, borrowed in nearly every case from animals, are ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman |
