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Usage examples of "animal spirit".
The mother of such a child was usually a pariah, cast out for fear she would draw the evil animal spirit again and cause other women to give birth to such abominations.
A totem can be any animal spirit, a cave lion, a golden eagle, a grasshopper, but certain animals have a kind of power.
This was a deadly man, a sort of a raw animal spirit held in check by a thin veneer of civilization.
It is seldom that a person with much animal spirit does not feel that the fact of his life being his own is the one qualification which singles it out as a more hopeful life than that of others who may actually resemble him in every particular.
The shaman was necessarily a master of movement up and down the Great Tree, sometimes moving unaided, and sometimes assisted by (or even mounted upon the back of) an animal spirit guide.
As he stalked through the jungle, he felt less himself than he did a vessel that an animal spirit could inhabit.
Harry later suggested to me that these might be animal perceptions of the world, the viewpoints of her various animal spirit helpers and fellow travellers.
Chakotay sat up, reaching to touch the animal spirit behind the ears in a gentle gesture.