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Twin Fetishes Obviously, it is the doctor who should guide the patient through the bewildering health-care maze.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some parts of Africa the Fetishes are a sort of guardian divinity, and there is one for each district like a town constable; and sometimes one for each family.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)

Such pictures, in which there is no attempt at representation, real or ideal, and which merely have a sort of imaginary sanctity and power, are not so much idols as they are mere Fetishes.

From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Fetishes were consulted by the people as oracles; and when they appeared in living form to return answers, it was generally as black dogs.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist