Word definition: 'fetich' • Lucid Lexicon

fetich

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Ancestral Lore

Ancestral Lore of fetich

1610s, fatisso "material object regarded with awe as having mysterious powers or being the representative of a deity that may be worshipped through it"

here included as a possible relative of fetch

fetich noun
also: fetish

an object, either natural or artificial, capable of being appropriated by an individual whose possession of it procures the services of a spirit lodged within it
- Chamber's Twentieth Century Dictionary
something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman
sexual attraction to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body
- all sexual definitions are a later addition (after 1897)

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Today's (primarily sexual) understanding of the word is the result of a classic ☣ artificum distortion. The most effective concealment is the one which obfuscates (something) by sprinkling new associations atop, thus drowning the previous understanding.

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Legend

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