Myths showing fetishistic belief are few and obscure, but the writer recently unearthed, in the fishing village of Newhaven, near Edinburgh, one which is a good example of the survival of a fetish myth and of the rise of a fetish to godhead.
For the flint is the fetishistic emblem of the thunder-god, and Brounger was a deity of the storm.
The jinn inhabiting Aladdin's lamp and ring appear to have been fetishistic spirits of this type.
The many stories told of his amorous adventures in animal form are obviously totemic and fetishistic legacies which as a great mythical figure he would undoubtedly attract to himself.
Fetishistic magic-cult here prevails in its most diverse forms, having, to all appearances, practically displaced the original soul and totem beliefs, though traces of the latter are everywhere present.
In this way, plant totems came to be added to animal totems; finally, as a result of certain relations of these two totems to inanimate objects, there arose a fetishistic offshoot of totemism.
Further verification of this contention may be found in the history of certain incidental products of fetishistic ideas, the amulet and the talisman.
The earliest fetishistic ideas, as we have seen, go far back into the period of soul and demon beliefs.
Analogy with neighboring tribes suggests that the very small vessels and the figurines are fetishistic appurtenances to the manufacture of the pottery; e.
In return for these fetishistic propitiations God is supposed to interfere with the normal course of causation in their favour.
Ordinary everyday Christianity is saturated with thisfetishistic conception of God.
I know that thou art welcome to dwell here as long as thou likest.
Good sir," quoth Gawayne, "wouldst thou go to the high lord of this house, and crave a lodging for me?
This fetishistic tendency was very slightly developed in California, and this in spite of--or as an Americanist could more properly say on account of--the generally rude and primitive condition of culture.
These, however, were not purely fetishistic objects, but of potency rather through symbolism and association.
Their power was bound up with certain stone amulets evidencing a fetishistic development.
Thus the arrow of Neith is fetishistic (a statement which will afterwards be justified), as are the symbols of Min and other deities.
Budge seems to imply, cannot be fetishisticor totemic.
Hence the fetishistic power of the altar was fully recognized in Greek ritual, and hence also in the cult of Apollo Agyieus the god and the altar are called by the same name.
A curious fetishistic fear of this grimy volume on the part of her mother prevented her ever allowing it to stay in the house all night, and hither it was brought back whenever it had been consulted.
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