fetish
fetich
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a variation of
fetish.
Example Sentences
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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
What I call a “poison” is to them only another material form of a fetich power, both poison and fetich being supposed to be made efficient by the presence of an adjuvant spirit.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
He is speaking of the value, to teachers especially, of the peculiar fetich of Teutonized university instruction, the thesis, and of its liability to be of fictitious value.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
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 Robert Hamill Nassau
He does not always hide his fetich charm worn on his person; for it passes muster in his explanation of its use as a “medicine.”
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
