clan-brethren

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But, when the totemic relation became a definite feature of social organization, the feeling was that the totem was in the nature of a clansman, of the same blood as the human group, and entitled to all the respect and affection with which men regarded their clan-brethren.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV