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Updated: June 28, 2025

For this and the three following chapters J. B. Tylor, Anthropology, Third Edition, 1891. J. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, Fourth Edition, 1903. Frazer, The Golden Bough, Third Edition, 1900. A new edition is now appearing in parts. A. Lang, Myth, Ritual, and Religion, new edition, 1899. Th. Achelis, in De la Saussaye. Waitz und Gerland, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, 1859-72.

Allan Menzies - History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems

It is plain, in any case, that the religion of the Africans in the Blantyre region has an element not easily to be derived from ancestral spirit-worship, an element not observed by Mr. Spencer. Nobody who has followed the examples already adduced will be amazed by what Waitz calls the 'surprising result' of recent inquiries among the great negro race.

Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion