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Fetishes  

Definition

  • Objects, such as small stone carvings of animals, believed to have magical power to protect or aid their owners; material objects regarded with superstitious or extravagant trust or reverence; objects of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion [Merriam Web, alt.]

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Notation

  • 120858

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-F0CQ48T7-F

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