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gathered to show that these hill-men have advanced some way towards polytheism/ al- 

 though their beliefs are still entirely in keeping with the accepted definition of animism. 1 

 And here we leave the hill-man to his future hopes and present fears, at the mercy 

 of the spirits with whom he has peopled the world of nature around him. Certain fea- 

 tures, such as the absence of human sacrifice, may differ, but in the main the study of 

 these tribes brings before us as if by the wave of a magician's wand, the life of the wild 

 races of north-western Europe two thousand years ago. The time machine is ours at 

 will when we step into the fairy-ring that encircles the life of the hill peoples on the 

 Xorth-Eastern Frontier of our Indian Empire. 



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1 See Golden Bouph, Magic Art, Vol. II, p. 48. the Abor example being the human shape assumed by the spirit of 

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* Tylor, Primitive Culture, Vol I, p. 425. 



