Animism

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 * Definition:: **Animism is the depiction of inanimate or other such nonliving objects as living, feeling things.


 *  Origin:: **From the classical Latin //anima// (life, soul) + the suffix //-ism//.

Definition taken from Oxford English Dictionary.


 *  Examples ** from text:[[image:http://images.wikia.com/dungeons/images/b/b9/Animated_Object.jpg width="200" height="267" align="right"]]

1) The NPR 3 Minute Story "Last Hope" (written by Christy Cook) describes a "haunted" house that can think and feel. The house, neglected and disheveled, desperately wants to be occupied, and as a result, it ends up trapping a prospective buyer by closing all of its doors and windows. This is an example of animism as applied to an inanimate object, a house.

2) In "El Beso," written by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, translated by T. Rowland, and edited by E.W. Olmsted, when the captain of the soldiers tries to kiss the statue of doña Elvira, the female, he is struck down by her "protector," the statue of a male soldier.

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