Study covers Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Goa.

This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.

Just as fetishism was for a long time accepted as a generic term covering all that was nefarious in the customs of the West African tribes, so in the popular mind today, Voodoo and Obeah are interchangeable and signify alike whatever is weird and eerie in the practices of the descendants of these same tribes as they are Just as fetishism was for a long time accepted as a generic term covering all that was nefarious in the customs of the West African tribes, so in the popular mind today, Voodoo and Obeah are interchangeable and signify alike whatever is weird and eerie in the practices of the descendants of these same tribes as they are.

Spiral Bound "reader" edition, card stock covers

Edward B. Tylor writing as long ago as 1871 observed: "Serpent worship unfortunately fell years ago into the hands of speculative writers, who mixed it up with occult philosophies, Druidical mysteries, and that portentous nonsense called the 'Arkite Symbolism, ' till now sober students hear the very name of ophiolatry with a shiver.' Yet it is in itself a rational and instructive subject of inquiry, especially notable for its width of range in mythology and religion."