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  THE SEX WORSHIP AND
  SYMBOLISM OF PRIMITIVE
  RACES

  AN INTERPRETATION

  BY
  SANGER BROWN II., M. D.

  _Assistant Physician, Bloomingdale Hospital_

  _With an Introduction by James H. Leuba_


  BOSTON: RICHARD G. BADGER
  TORONTO: THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED



  _Copyright 1916, by Richard G. Badger_
  _All rights reserved_

  _The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A._



  DEDICATED TO MY WIFE
  HELEN WILLISTON BROWN




PREFACE


The greater part of the first three chapters of this book appeared in
the _Journal of Abnormal Psychology_ in the December-January number of
1915-16 and the February-March number of 1916. This material is
reprinted here by the kind permission of the Editor of that Journal.
This part of the subject is chiefly historical and the data here given
is accessible as indicated by the references throughout the text,
although many of these books are difficult to secure or are out of
print. For this historical material I am particularly indebted to the
writings of Hargrave Jennings, Richard Payne Knight and Doctor Thomas
Inman. Most of the reference matter coming under the general heading of
Nature Worship was obtained from comparatively recent sources, such as
the publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, of the Smithsonian
Institute, and certain publications of the American Museum of Natural
History. Frazer's _Golden Bough_ and other writings of J. G. Frazer on
Anth