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fetish

Portuguese traders on the West African coast called local charms feitiço, 'something made, a spell'; French fétiche gave English fetish, later a word for any obsessive attachment. Spanish hechizo 'spell' is the same Latin word, and Japanese clipped fetishism to fechi.

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