The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c13.s2.2

v1.c13.s2.2

¹ This is perhaps the most useful sense of the term fetishism, which sometimes is applied to what is here called animatism. See C. de Brosses, *Du culte des dieux fétiches* (Paris, 1760); Bastian, *Über Fetischismus* (1894); de Visser, *Die nichtmenschengestaltigen Götter der Griechen* (1903); Haddon, *Magic and Fetishism* (1906); R. M. Meyer, *Archiv für Rel.*, xi. 320 ff.; Hopkins, *Hist. of Rel.*, pp. 35 f.