Demons, when they are regarded as spirits, may belong to either of the classes of spirits recognized by primitive animism; that is to say, they may be human, or non-human, separable souls, or discarnate spirits which have never inhabited a body; a sharp distinction is often drawn between these two classes, notably by the Melanesians, the West Africans and others; the Arab jinn, for example, are not reducible to modified human souls; at the same time these classes are frequently conceived as producing identical results, e.g.   anvd [Please select]

This was a new and sophisticated republication of savage animism.   anvd [Please select]

Animism is, as already explained, a pitfall which is always yawning before us and into which we are sure to plunge unless we are ever watchful.   anvd [Please select]

] surface of a world whose real causality is an unimaginable ontological principle hidden in the cubic deeps, is, for the more empirical way of thinking, only animism in another shape.   anvd [Please select]