The fetich is a symbol of the desired person, thus the handkerchief and glove of the woman or the hat of the man. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
Sometimes the odor of the armpit may even become a kind of fetich which is craved for its own sake and in itself suffices to give pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference
"Not this summer -- that cat has spent these last two summers with human beings who have treated him as a kind of fetich -- just as we do!". From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Binet maintains that these articles play the part of the "fetich" in early theology. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Nothing could be learned regarding the practice or nonpractice of any "fetich" or "voudou" rites. From Wordnik.com. ['Little Africa': The Last Slave Cargo Landed in the United States] Reference
It is the fetich of age which has made possible the. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
His imagination ran riot, till it became to him a fetich. From Wordnik.com. [In a Far Country] Reference
Please help, are you finding anybandage fetich on Internet?. From Wordnik.com. [Come Hither] Reference
Here the fetich of German scholarship should not deceive us. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
But it was on the parlor floor, that fetich of a devoted life. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
No more curious fetich can be found in the history of folk-lore. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
She had one fetich, the candles must be extinguished at ten o'clock. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
A sacred thing was this book her lodger had made, a fetich of friendship. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 43] Reference
Somehow or other, some fetich had descended from Prester John by way of the. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
There is always danger that a particular classification may become a fetich. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 39] Reference
He started from this neighbourhood because the fetich was somewhere hereabouts. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
Let this last-surviving fetich be ousted from the fair temple of inorganic science. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
Forever after, each one is mystically united with the fetich who presides over his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
They brought him propitiatory gifts, such as are usually deposited in the fetich huts or mzimu. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
Well, he had the fetich, whatever it was, and it was believed that he owed his conquests to it. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
And with robbers and the generality of evil-doers the child, dead or alive, is much of a fetich. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Comte called the world, which is tantamount to matter, the great fetich, and I agree with Comte. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
This fetich is also called iso (grandmother), hence the name given to the house where it is kept. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
For I had made her a respectable, orderly doll to take the place of the ungainly fetich out on the barren. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
If this question passes to the next administration, there should be no fetich developed over past differences. From Wordnik.com. [The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox] Reference
The school-book, in the eyes of the unlettered slave, was a sort of fetich to which he attributed the power of the white man. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
The superstition now becomes mere fetich-worship, since the. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The sinister predictions of the fetich were soon fulfilled. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Cherokee medicine is an empiric development of the fetich idea. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
For a curious account of medicine-bags and fetich-worship among the Algonquins of Gaspe, see Le. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
Then the secret of such marvelous deeds is supposed to exist in the bow, and it becomes a fetich. From Wordnik.com. [Algonquin Legends of New England] Reference
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