Spirits, gods, elves, vampiri, angels, whatever you want to call them and whatever role they fulfull in a particular belief system, what is important here is that they are all nonhuman intelligences that interact with the "natural" world (in quotes because I don't think premodern societies distinguish between natural and supernatural worlds -- come to think of it the distinction between the two makes no sense) and that all human societies of which I am aware believe in them. At least before the very recent past.
--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> Animism is the belief that physical objects,
> animals, and people can
> "inhabited" by some spirits/forces/supernatural
> entities, for good or
> for bad. However, there are no gods that are
> worshipped or feared.
>
> Miles
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