jungle-fever

Updated: June 1, 2025

It is with sacrifice, or by means of sacrifice, that their gods are approached by all men, beginning even with the jungle-dwellers of Chota Nagpur, who sacrifice fowls and offer victims, for the purpose of conciliating the powers that send jungle-fever and murrain.

F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons - The Idea of God in Early Religions