Definition of "fetiches" [fetiches]

• Plural form of fetich. (noun)

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• "Sulphur, formaldehyde, carbolic acid, permanganate of potash, chloride of lime, bichloride of mercury -- the author knew not which of these "fetiches" to be most sarcastic about."
• "* The "fetiches" are various articles, shells, etc. supposed to be endowed with supernatural power for the protection or injury of those who may be subject to them. with superstitious awe, when a wild shout burst from the outskirts of the village, and before the panic-stricken people could fight or fly, the foe was upon them."
• "The only rational thing for the twentieth-century folk to do is to cover up the well; to make the twentieth century in truth the twentieth century, and to relegate to the nineteenth century and all the preceding centuries the things of those centuries, the witch-burnings, the intolerances, the fetiches, and, not least among such barbarisms."