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Even an animistic "River god" is portrayed in a positive light.

Most of the groups in the regions follow animistic religious beliefs.

They worship nature and have an animistic conception of the physical environment.

The Chinese generally practice their folk religion which is also animistic in nature.

The animistic, pantheistic imagery was only a language for saying that.

Matter was not regarded lifeless but something full of life, in an almost animistic belief.

However, even at this early stage, there is perhaps something more than animistic magic at work.

The animistic nature of folk beliefs is an anthropological cultural universal.

It was an animistic culture which existed prior the introduction of Buddhism.

Often it was considered that fairy-like animistic beings lived in them.

There is also an undercurrent of traditional animistic beliefs especially in rural areas.

The two elderly women visit the marriage ceremony and watch various animistic sexual rituals.

They were animistic and shamanic in their religious practices.

However, today they more often follow a faith, which is a blend of some Hindu and a few animistic rituals.

Most of them claimed to be Buddhists, but their religious practices were largely animistic.

Variations of animistic practices occur in different ethnic groups.

It is a superbly concrete setting, dense with animistic meaning.

There are also several references to the World tree and other animistic aspects of the natural world.

The earliest forms of Vietnamese religious practice were animistic and totemic in nature.

Uktena are said to be animistic peoples from all over the world.

The religion was animistic, with a marked absence of elaborate myth or ritual.

In animistic religion, animals, plants, and other entities may be persons or deities.

She had an animistic universe in her mind."

Mr. Noble's version is by no means the first to present this play as an animistic, collective dream.

In other words, the theory is grossly animistic.