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Naturally the people in Paris worshipped those guns and being unable to wear them they made the fetich referred to by Mr. Coble to wear in place of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a certain fetich charm called “ngalo,” by means of which its possessor can have gratified any wish he may express.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

Such a group of ideas is what Bacon would have called a scientific fetich or idolum theatri.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Sometimes the word “dead” is used of a fetich amulet that has been inhabited by a spirit conjured into it by a native doctor.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

He possessed a little bundle containing powerful fetich medicines, so compounded that they constituted the kind of charm known as Ekongi.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill