They believed that the soul and the physical body were two separate things and that the soul of the deceased could be reborn into the body of an animal, so this type of animal was a totem feared most by them.
他們相信靈魂和軀體是兩回事，死人之靈魂可進入動物體內再生，所以這類動物也就是他們最敬畏的圖騰。