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Updated: June 11, 2025

First and foremost, we have found some of the Swan-maiden tales boldly professing to account for the worship of totems; and so thoroughly does totemism appear to be ingrained in the myth that there is some reason for thinking that here we have a clue to the myth's origin and meaning.

Edwin Sidney Hartland - The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology