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" Will be found extremely useful by non-classical students of Shakespeare, 

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Demy 8vo, pp. iv. and 299, Cloth gilt, id*. 6d. 



Serpent Worship, 



And other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism. 



BY C. STANILAND WAKE. 



CONTENTS: Rivers of Life Phallism in Ancient Religions Origin of Serpent Worship 

 The Adamites The Descendants of Cain Sacred Prostitution Marriage among Primitive 

 Peoples Marriage by Capture Development of the "Family" The Social Position of 

 Woman as affected by "Civilization" Spiritism and Modern Spiritualism Totems and 

 Totemism Man and the Ape. 



" The most important of the thirteen essays discusses the origin of Serpent 

 Worship. Like other papers which accompany it, it discusses its subject from 

 a wide knowledge of the literature of early religions and the allied themes of 

 anthropology and primitive marriage. . . . The remaining essays are WRITTEN 

 WITH MUCH LEARNING AND IN A CAREFUL SPIRIT OF INQUIRY, happily 

 free from the crude mysticism with which the discussion of these subjects has 

 often been mixed up. They may be recommended to the attention of all 

 interested in anthropology and the history of religion as interesting labours 

 in this field of research and speculation." Scotsman, October 31. 



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 who hold that kinship through females and the matriarchate preceded paternal 

 kinship and the patriarchal family, and who connect the phenomena of 

 exogamy and of totemism with the matriarchal stage of society, and with 

 belief in a definite kinship of man with the remainder of the sensible universe. 

 He looks upon female kinship as having existed concurrently with a quasi - 

 patriarchal system. " Athenccum. 



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