Other modes of propitiating the higher powers were penitential processions, the parading of images of the Virgin or of saints through plague-stricken towns, and fetiches innumerable.
Among the thousands of fetiches of various sorts then resorted to may be named, as typical, the Holy Handkerchief of Besancon.
But, since exorcisms were found at times ineffectual, other means were sought, and especially fetiches of various sorts.
What the exorcisms and fetiches and prayers and processions, and drinking of holy water, and ringing of bells, had been unable to accomplish during eighteen hundred years, he achieved in a few months.
What the relics of St. Januarius, St. Anthony, and a multitude of local fetiches throughout Italy were for ages utterly unable to do, has been accomplished by the development of the simplest sanitary principles.
To hold these views of the origin of the supernatural predicate of fetiches is not 'to take for granted that every human being was miraculously endowed with the concept of what forms the predicate of every fetich.
We too would say that, among people who adore fetichesand ghosts, the concept of gods no doubt silently grew up, as men assumed a more and more definite attitude towards the tangible and intangible objects they held sacred.
In fetiches, he ignorantly recognises something that possesses power of an abnormal sort, and the train of ideas which leads him to believe in and to treasure fetiches is one among the earliest springs of religious belief.
They, at least, will agree with Mr. Max Muller that there are fetiches and fetiches, that to one reverence is assigned for one reason, to another for another.
The savage organisers of other societies found outfetiches and ghosts that were 'respecters of persons.
Oh yes," said Remandji, "there are men who have fetiches which have power to make game come to them.
Several fetiches hung on the walls, and in a corner was the skull of an antelope fastened to the roof.
At last, after two days, six stout men, covered with fetiches and painted in the most fantastic manner, came to take the body, to leave it in the woods under some big tree.
One of these fetiches had two claws of the eagle called guanionien, and three scales of an animal called ipi, an ant-eater, the scales on which are very large and thick.
There were several fetiches hung above the skulls--fetiches which were famous, and had led his ancestors to victory, gave them success in the hunt, and had prevented them from being bewitched.
It is believed that without recourse to these fetichesor to prayers and other inducements toward the game animals, especially the deer tribe, it would be useless to attempt the chase.
It rests with these memberships and these alone to perfect the fetiches when found, and to carry on at stated intervals the ceremonials and worship connected with them.
The fetiches in question (Plate III) represent, with two exceptions, the same species of prey animals as those supposed to guard the six regions.
The tail is only indicated, while in nearly all other Wolf fetiches it is clearly cut down the rump, nearly to the gambol joint.
Therefore it happens that the use of thesefetiches is chiefly connected with the chase.
The relative value of these varieties of fetiches depends largely upon the rank of the Animal god they represent.
According to this classification, which is native, thefetiches of the Mountain Lions are represented on Plate IV.
These fetiches being unpopular, because considered less powerful than those of the larger gods of prey, are very rare, and are either rude concretions with no definite form (Plate II, Fig.
As far as fetiches are concerned, it is simply reversing the facts to suppose that it is because one fetich can only do one thing, that many fetiches are picked up.
But fetiches, even when their function becomes permanent, remain fetiches and do not become gods.
Instances of such rough handling of their fetiches by the people are far from unknown in the Land of Great Peace.
Yet they conquered and pacified not only by superior strategy, tactics, weapons and valor, but also by advanced fetiches and dogma.
They, at least, will agree with Mr. Max Mueller that there are fetiches and fetiches, that to one reverence is assigned for one reason, to another for another.
He belonged to the society of war magicians, and held in his possession most of the charms and fetiches used for securing invincibility.
The Malays and the Nias Islanders for this purpose prepare special fetiches (Modigliani).
So, too, the fetiches and the ceremonial objects and decorations were wakanda among different tribes.
In Ashanti, boy musicians, singers, and dancers figure in the processions of welcome of the chiefs and kings, and young girls are engaged in the service of the fetiches (438.
In Congo the king keeps them in his palace as 'fetiches which give him influence over the Europeans.
It is easy to understand how, among barbarous or semi-civilized peoples, children born deformed or with any strange marking or defect should be looked upon as objects of fear or reverence, fetiches in fact.
Other accidents or incidents of birth have sufficed to make fetiches of children.
As a result of the universal employment of fetiches in African tribes, there is no confidence between man and man.
For such concentrated interests as are represented in the family, there naturally would be fetiches to guard those interests separate from the individual fetich with its purely personal interests.
In the Anglo-African parlance of the Coast fetiches are called by various names, but all signify the same thing.
Fetiches are set up to punish offenders in certain cases where there is an intention to make a law specially binding; this refers more particularly to crimes which cannot always be detected.
After the failure of ordinary medicines or personal fetiches to relieve or heal or prevent the continuance of the evil, the hidden Yaka is brought out by the chiefs of the offender's family.
Fetiches may be made of anything of vegetable, animal, or metallic nature, "and need only to pass through the consecrating hands of a native priest to receive all the supernatural powers which they are supposed to possess.
For each and all his heathenfetiches the priest simply substituted a Roman Catholic relic.
He therefore voluntarily offered to call an Ukuku meeting and have a law enacted that no one should machinate against the Benga's life by fetichesof any kind.
In many religions fetichism plays an important part, so much so that fetiches such as amulets or relics produce ecstasy in the faithful.
Among the Kansa, the following fetiches belong to the two Hañga gentes: The war pipe and the war clam shell.
She gave the Hidatsa two kettles, which they still preserve as a sacred treasure and employ as charms or feticheson certain occasions.
Fetiches may be regarded as of two kinds--those pertaining to the tribe or gens, and those belonging to individual members of the social organization.
An altar and fetiches were permanently maintained, and appropriate groups of these fetiches were displayed from month to month, as the different priests of the sacred feasts succeeded each other, each new moon bringing its prescribed feast.
Around this spot the fetichesare set during a festival; it typifies also the first world of the Tusayan genesis and the opening through which the people first emerged.
This woman’s house is also called the “house of grandmother,” and in it is preserved the tiponi and other fetiches of the society.
Across the end of the kiva on the main floor a ledge of masonry is built, usually about 2 feet high and 1 foot wide, which serves as a shelf for the display of fetiches and other paraphernalia during stated observances (see Fig.
Mr. Stephen observed, at the New Year festivals, that animal feticheswere set in groups upon this platform.
At the New Year festivals animal fetiches were set in groups upon this platform.
They might be supplemented by a more or less extensive museum of religious curiosities, beginning with the fetiches of savage tribes and extending down to the present day.
The religions of the present day have developed, gradually, from a primitive system of physics to a complete system of metaphysics: the fetiches have been transmuted into symbols of the First Cause, or of the Final Cause.
A belief in relics, pushed so far by the earlier Christians and by so many Catholics to-day, is, too, a sort of faith in fetiches or amulets.
How sedulously this fetichism was inculcated by those who profited from the control of the fetiches is shown by a thousand stories and incidents of the time.
These fetiches may serve as gods, and are believed to have the power to return evil for evil to any one who may harm their owners.
Their awed faith in the potency of charms and fetiches is one of the most dumbly pathetic facts in African life.
Among the different savage races the belief in fetiches presents a number of stages, corresponding to the beginnings of reason.
I forget every minute that YOU do not recognise the essential identity of your own taboos and poojahs and fetiches with the similar and often indistinguishable taboos and poojahs and fetiches of savages generally.
They think fetiches and gods and other imaginary supernatural beings were all in the last resort developed out of ghosts, hostile or friendly; and from what I see abroad, I incline to agree with them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fetiches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
