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kills the animal as which they has called. Of these beliefs we find
apparently a lot of traces in the Anglo-Saxon life. The genealogies of the
kings include such names as those of the horse, the mare, the ash and
the whale. In the Anglo-Saxon very first poem of Beowulf, two of the
characters bear the names of Wulf and Eofer (the boar). The wolf and the
imperial crow is animal sacred, and you/he/she has left their memory in many places, as
well as in so personal titles as AEthelwulf, the noble wolf. The boar
you/he/she was greatly revered also; its head was used as an amulet, or as a
crest for helmets, and they were jurors on him you cultivate in the middle one late
age. The head of ours really boar to Christmas is a relic of the old belief. The
the holiness of the horse and the ash you/he/she has already been mentioned. Now many
of the names of hole of Anglo-Saxon clan that implicate their descent from this way
plants or animals. This way a rental mentions the AEscings or children of the
ash, in Carriage; another refers to the Earningses or children of the eagle
(earningses); a bystander to the Heartings or children of the hart; a quarter to the
Wylfings or children of the wolf; and a fifth to the Thornings or children of
the thorn. The oak has left traces of its descendants to Oakington, in
Cambridge: the whip, to Birchington, in Kent; the boar (Eofer) to
Evringham, in Yorkshire; the hawk, to Hawkinge, in Kent; the horse, to
Horsington, in Lincolnshire; the imperial crow, to Raveningham, in Norfolk; the
you sun, to Sunning, in Berks; and the snake (Wyrm), to Wormingford,
Worminghall and Wormington, in Essex, loom Saws and Gloucester,
respectively. Every one of these objects is a common and notorious ground of ownership
totem among wild tribe; and the inference that to some first
period that the Anglo-Saxons had been Totemists it is almost irresistible.
Besides it is a fact verified, that a the custom of exogamy (the marriage
from capture out of the tribe), and of relative of calculation on the woman
you side alone, it accompanies the low stage of culture with which Totemism is