Associations to the word «Totemism»

Wiktionary

TOTEMISM, noun. (religion) The belief that a person or group has a special mystical relationship to a totem

Dictionary definition

TOTEMISM, noun. Belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats