As the primitive believer assigns special potency or mystery to the strong and the swift, he gradually comes to give exceptional rank to self-moving animals; as his experience of the strength, alertness, swiftness, and courage of his animate enemy or prey increases, these animals are invested with successively higher and higher attributes, each reflecting the mental operations of the mystical huntsman, and in time the animals with which the primitive believers are most intimately associated come to be regarded as tutelary daimons of supernatural power and intelligence.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee
Zulus are great believers in tutelary spirits, of which each individual has one or more continually watching over him.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Of the internal condition of the Phenician cities, the fragment of the history of Tyre in Josephus only enables us to ascertain that there was no lack of strife and bloodshed in the palaces of the kings, and that the priests of the tutelary deity must have been of importance and influence beside the king.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker