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The average mind, nurtured in apprehensive awe of that race fetish called Public Opinion, is inordinately afraid of words.
Among them fetish worship, superstition, polygamy, tendency to constant strife, and other characteristic African faults abound.
He looked fixedly at the Master, not unlike a fanatic savage worshiping his fetish, or as a scientist watches the universe.
In order that this beneficent state of things should come about, the scientists had fought valiantly against many fetishes.
Scornfully disdaining revelation from above, he groped below, and found for himself a little fetish made of turnips and cabbages.
When, for example, amulets and fetishes are supposed to possess supernatural power, they are not only treasured, but worshiped.
The shame would die in repudiating a fundamental law of nature, of sacrificing two lives to the fetish of conventional morality.
He recognizes other supernatural beings than his own personal and tribal fetishes, the eponymous heads of the beast clans.
His book, Free Trade and Protection, published fifteen years after his first, assailed the tariff fetish dear to his generation.
Here, at least, we are certainly more sensible than our English sisters, who make a sort of fetish of the low-necked gown.
The transformation of a regimental badge like your Red Bull into a sort of fetish that the boy follows is very interesting.'
There is, as is in all things West African, a great deal of fetish ceremonial mixed up with West African medical methods.
The meaning of the word fetish has become so blurred by indiscriminate use that there is a temptation to discard it altogether.
Hardly less astonishing are the powers ascribed to the two fetishes which are in the official keeping of the "King of Water."
Amulets, charms, lucky stones, everything that we now call by the familiar term of mascot, partakes of the nature of a fetish.
If our honored ancestors desired to perpetuate their taboos, fetishes and inquisitions they had no business to die; they should have stayed here.
Both races cut the boss from hunchbacks after decease, and 'make fetish' over it to free the future family from similar distortion.
Every one believes that every malady under the sun is produced by fetish, and that some enemy is casting spells upon them.
Three alligators inhabit this pond, and being regarded as "fetishes," or charmed and sacred creatures, are never injured by the natives.
She had watched it with misgivings turning into a fetish, and now the fetish had grown into a monstrous and crushing weight.
This probably casts light on many other so-called fetish collections of primitive people, as for example those of the North American Indians.
For the most part these fetishes are heirlooms of which the origin is forgotten; some of them are said to have fallen from heaven.
Only because she'd always been fanatical about answering telephones while she was alive and that now, dead, she clung to her fetish.
The marketplace was situated round the tree, which became the great fetish tree of the town, under which human sacrifices were offered.
No Fetish worshiper, however lofty his genius, could have evolved the systems of Brahmanism or Buddhism by a single bound of his imagination.
This sounded discouraging to a person whose occupation would necessitate going about considerably in boats, and whose fixed desire was to study fetish.
The banks of the river were low, covered with stunted trees; and a slave-factory and fetish hut were the only buildings visible.
Loyalty to his superior officer, the unquestioning loyalty that disregards motives entirely and does not look too closely at methods, was his fetish.
They consist in the transformation of the earlier fetish into an intelligent, corporeal person, and result from the formation and personification of types.
Down, down they sink until they are on their knees in the mire of tradition, their heads bowed to the ugly little fetish.
In deposing or relegating to a lower rank a crowd of totems and fetishes and ancestral ghosts, he inherited the legends of their exploits.
Again, if after a little time the fetish ceases to fulfil his wishes, he breaks it and drags it in the mire by way of punishment.
His wife looked up amused, since she knew that he acted thus because he had no patience with her belief in the peacock as a fetish.
For the fulfillment of some of them, those which are manifestly anti-social, he must turn to his fetish, or rely upon the power of magic.
They blindly believe that the fetish is all-powerful, and that the half naked dancing savages who administer it are endowed with supernatural powers.
While our logic teaches that everything is true, and truth is the universe, the Ionic philosophers made a sort of fetish out of the matter.
The fetish can be adored, the ancestor addressed in prayer, before the family has become the tribe, or promiscuous intercourse has passed into polygamy.
The woman who suckled us or fed us and attended to our various physical needs, nurse or nurse maid, may become the bearer of our fetishes.
There are fetishes and incantations which, when they have been discontinued in one pueblo, can only be recovered from some other one, often far distant.
Is it not, after all, a mere fetish, and are not those virulent writers correct who see nothing good in the subject save only its utilities?
Perhaps the changes of mood towards the doll, of which George Sand writes, illustrate the alternating preponderance of the baby and the fetish half.
There was a little bottle on the mantelpiece, a bottle of dark blue glass, and he trembled and shuddered before it, as if it were a fetish.
Do you know, I believe those devilish men sometimes offer human sacrifices to this satanic fetish, when there is a drought or anything of that sort.
There is no wonder that concerning many of the most important phenomena of human life we are still little above the level of the fetish worshiper.
Close by caravans are halting, camels lying on the sand, Moors unloading their bales of ground nuts and their fetish pouches of wrought leather.
Thus, it is these inanimate vehicles of a magic derived from totem ancestors, that form the transition from the totem object to the so-called fetish.
One night, Don Pablo followed his overseer into the forest, and reached a deserted hut, evidently used as a fetish temple, just as the rites began.
Should one not exult at that, even though men must give up their dearest fetishes, their secret shrines; even though sentiment must be sacrificed to Truth?
Along each side of the little court ran a sort of verandah, beneath which was an immense assortment of little idols and fetishes of all kinds.
I have made offering to the fetish, and although the struggle must be fierce and unrelenting I am determined to strike a blow for my country's freedom.
"Will the great fetish of the white men lead us back to our homes now that we have shed the blood of so many of his worshipers?"
The others had a feeling that all these threats did not affect him and that, protected by his fetish, he believed himself to be invulnerable.
All were intent on the sensational prize they had secured, a young and beautiful white woman so contentedly roaming about the shores of this Fetish island.
Nor, again, ought the professed worship of devils to be tolerated, more than the Fetish worship, or the African witchcraft, was tolerated in the West Indies.
Individual fetishes are used, and there is some annual ceremony at the time of ripening of cactus fruits, and certain observances at the time of the new moon.
Of course, he knew the ignorant and superstitious believed in fetishes, but he could not fully comprehend that the so-called enlightened sincerely believed in all these.
In every village they saw a fetish house in good repair, adorned with painted figures of human beings, as also the boa, the alligator, and the tortoise.
All, however, remained quiet, except that they were once or twice startled by the loud beating of a drum, and the deep blasts from the fetish horn.
If he ordered his followers to offer you and your maid as sacrifices to his fetish, they would carry out his orders, not only willingly, but joyfully.
And of course it is all unanswerable, and as I ride along through the evening shadows I sneer at that Great Fetish which Comte called the world.
There could not exist, properly speaking, a fetish common to several bodies; this would be a contradiction, every fetish being necessarily endowed with a material individuality.
This was not all: mothers went the length of making their children wear bandages adorned with fetishes, to strengthen the little ones and keep away demons.
Things could not have been better managed by the discarded fetish, and Leah admitted that in this respectable orgy the birthday of her life had come.
Their credulity is, indeed, proverbial, but no one who does not mix with them can conceive the extent of it; it reminds one of the African fetish.
Among soldiers of the best sort the Regiment is apt to be a fetish, and to Desmond the lightest imputation of disregard for its welfare was intolerable.
And is not gaming a species of idolatry, symbolized by cards, and which has its images, its fetishes, its miracles, its fanatics, and its martyrs?
It is more largely applied to the designs represented on their robes and mythological subjects when appearing on their lodges, fetish envelopes, etc., as has been stated.
These books and pamphlets are based on facts analyzed scientifically, marking the parting of the way of engineering thought from the past subjection to speculative fetishes.
Moreover, from this belief some of their skulls are made objects of fetish worship, and are marked with broad stripes of red paint, crossed by a white one.
The fetish-man took the long pod in his hand, and slightly touched our necks, our heads, our arms, and our legs, muttering rapidly his litany of incantations.
He plunged his hand into his pocket for the famous notebook so well known in the islands, the fetish of his hopes, and fluttered the pages feverishly.
The image itself is of dark-green stone, in form rudely resembling a human head and bust, probably shaped by art like the stone fetishes of the Pueblo tribes.
Such a fetish cult does not include expressions of reverence and thanksgiving, as do the soul and totem cults and later, in a greater measure, the deity cult.
There the fetish priests held great orgies, and for their ghastly ceremonies and initiations they caught any stranger who was reckless enough to pass the hill.
While it pulls down much that passion and inaccuracy have reared, and thus restores respect for the past, it does not turn that past into a fetish.
It is only after a certain grade of culture has been attained that the belief in luck appears; the fetish is essentially a mascot or object carried for luck.
Underlying them throughout there is the fetish form of thought; but it is erroneous to believe that all West African native doctors are witch doctors, because they are not.
The religion was not monotheistic, but embodied the worship not only of sun, moon, and stars, but of rocks, mountains, stone idols, and a variety of fetishes.
Not a fetish, not a selfish trust in a Patron Deity for securing personal advantages, but an enlightened, boundless trust in the Supreme power, wisdom, and rectitude.
The keynote of his conception, then, was his revolutionary substitution of the primitive Elizabethan and early seventeenth century method for the fetish of the single line.
As a natural object with a definite form it is regarded as a fetish which is looked upon with reverence by the knowing ones and pronounced bad by the uninitiated.
A name becomes a fetish as much as a stock or a stone, and men bow down to it and worship it with as much abasement of their better natures.
The fetishes of the natives could not prevail against disease in the hollows and shaded nooks of their land, nor can the drugs of the white races.
A natural object which has a chance resemblance to a man or beast is chosen as a fetish, and the worshiper by chipping or rubbing increases slightly the likeness.
In many cases it seems as if the image of the Virgin has become, among the lower class of people, little more than a fetish, a thing to conjure with.
The rigorous taboo of the Sabbath was revived, the theater was denounced, the corruption of human nature became the dominant theme, and the Bible more a fetish than ever.
Tender-hearted parents fear lest some pictures should terrify the little ones; the few that do are those which the child himself discovers in some extraordinary way to be fetishes.
They persuaded him that my Fetish was stronger than his, and as he feared my power, he sold me to an English trader who needed carriers for his ivory.
The utterances of both gentlemen were delivered with the repose and dignity peculiar to their body, and Patriotism and the Constitution would appear to be their watchword and fetish.
A profession may be a fetish, and so can a mental attitude, in short, anything which in childhood may have been considered as a source of safety, comfort, egotistical gratification, etc.
When a large fire occurs they frequently kill the owner of the habitation in which it first broke out, considering that it originated through some sacrilege or omission of fetish worship.
Though his story was vague, and overshadowed by the superstitions that darken the minds of the fetish worshipers, there was no doubt that it was based upon fact.
For the African, whose mind has been soaked in fetish during his early and most impressionable years, the voice of fetish is almost irresistible when affliction comes to him
They believed in the power of the old deceiver and in his charms, and look now, how that great fetish-man hangs from the elephant's trunk and is crying "Aka!"
The fetish worshiper leaves his hut in the morning, sees some bright pebble glistening on his path, lifts it from the ground and says, this shall be my fetish.
Many of the personal fetishes of the Hopi consist of fossils, some of which attain the rank of tribal fetishes and are wrapped up in sacred bundles, which are highly venerated.
Then there are huge candles without number, martyrs and crucifixions, with all the disgusting and bloody features of elsewhere; every kind and degree and shape and size of fetish.
Again and again this was repeated until all the snakes had been treated in the same way, and reptiles, fetishes, crooks, and sand were mixed together in one confused mass.
Surely their presence is a guarantee that Socialists have not been ruled by the working class or proletarian "fetish," against which Marx warned them more than half a century ago.
Solitude permitting the play of temper, she punished the fetish, by flinging its outward and visible sign of a peacock's feather from the compartment which witnessed the unmasking.