Frazer here gives deep insights into superstitious beliefs, magical rituals, marital rules and their interconnection with totemism - as a form of superstitious respect of savages against a certain class of material objects (esp. animals and plants), of which they believe to stand in intimate relation (descendance) to them - and exogamy, as general marital rights and prohibitions of certain tribes and their classes and clans. Sigmund Freud has made reference to this work in his study called "Totem and Taboo". ( )