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fetish
Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
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In ancient Greece the fetich was common enough: sacred axes, sacred sceptres, pyramidical or cone-shaped stones, rudely hewn tree-stumps, are examples which we find in the literature and art of the historic or prehistoric periods; the most common kind of private fetich was the gem, carried as an amulet.
Sexual attraction to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body.
An irrational or abnormal preoccupation or fixation on some object or activity; an obsession.