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Emma is assuredly in a developmental stage called animism, in which very young children imbue inanimate objects with life and emotion. "Calvin and Hobbes," by Bill Waterson, offers the most famous ...

Animism describes practices that establish a relationship between places and people, usually one that recognizes places, animals and plants have power over people.

Educational psychologists have shown that young children go through a developmental stage of animism. In their eyes, inanimate objects seem alive.