This study was aimed to discover the deities in Malaysian Tamil folk songs, to analyse the animism in deities cult and to evaluate the impacts of animism among Tamils Labourers. Qualitative approaches with descriptive and explanatory designs were used in this study. A total of 117 Malaysian Tamil folk songs that met the research objectives were analysed. Animism theory and thematic analysis were used to collect information from the folk songs. Data were analysed using narrative and discourse analysis. Narrative analysis describes the content of the folk songs while discourse analysis explains the usage of terms and words used in the folk songs that can be related to the deities and animism. Code manual were used as research instrument. The findings showed that eight types of deities such as Main male deities, Main female deities, Tutelary male deities, Tutelary female deities, Devas, Nature Deities, Festivals and Places were worshipped by the Tamil labourers. Four elements .....

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Abstract: Barathidasan is a well-known social reformalist. His poems delivered numerous social thinking ideas. Due to it, this research investigated the social thinking ideas in Barathidasan poems and related current issues. Three main social thinking ideas such as caste refusal, women rights and abolition superstition beliefs were explained in this research. This research designed as qualitative research by using library research...

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