fetishes

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fetishes. (88:1-2secs) See also charms; relics
belief in relics is outgrowth of (88:2.1-2)
Confucius made fetish out of order (94:6.9)
doctrine of spirit possession (88:0.1)
examples
certain days and numbers, peculiar pebbles (88:1.2,6)
human body parts, hunchbacks, cripples, lunatics (88:1.8-9)
Kaaba stone at Mecca (95:7.5)
kings became fetish personalities (70:6.4-5)
guarded water holes, wells, trees, crops, and honey (69:9.12)
in all primitive cults (88:3.1)
made early market places secure against theft (69:4.3)
many times symbolized real object of worship (85:1.3)
place in evolution of religious observances (90:0.1)
pouch with assortment of ghost-impregnated articles (88:3.3)
when plants or animals became f., taboo as food (88:1.3-5)

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