psycholatry

Definitions

The worship of departed souls.

uncountable

Examples

“Then come⟳ into being idolatry, psycholatry, henotheism. Idolotry is the worship⟳ of an image only, of a symbol of something else. Psycholatry is the worship⟳, the great reverence paid to the spirit of the departed.”

“When, moreover, we call⟳ to mind⟳ that the spirits of the dead, who at this season leave⟳ their graves and hold⟳ high revel with the fairies, seem really indistinguishable from the latter, the conclusion irresistibly forces itself upon us, that in the cult paid to the fairy race⟳ we have⟳ a survival of the worship⟳ of departed souls, or psycholatry as it is sometimes called, which is, so far as we know⟳, one of the oldest religions in the world, even if it be not, as many high authorities maintain⟳, the primitive religion of mankind.”

“There is again psycholatry, or the religious reverence paid to the spirits of the dead.”

“Another form⟳ of religion called psycholatry holds in reverence the spirit of the departed.”

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