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18th century, "apparition of a living person, specter, a double"

an English word of obscure origin
Compare fetich

fetch noun
  • the apparition, double or wraith of a living person

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"A peculiarly weird type of apparition is the wraith (q.v.) or double, of which the Irish fetch is a variant. The wraith is an exact facsimile of a living person, who may himself see it. Goethe, Shelley, and other famous men are said to have seen their own wraiths. The fetch makes its appearance shortly before the death of the person it represents, either to himself or his friends, or both."

"An Encyclopedia of Occultism"
by Lewis Spence, 1920

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~☉~lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
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artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense
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