The History of Fetishism

The etymology of fetish comes from Portuguese. The sexualized version came into I believe it was 1897. If you're technically worshiping in some regard, like the people have really like strong fetishes for stuff where they like they're consumed by it, right? That's all they think about and do. And that's called mental illness. So we have here arose that out of fetishism, especially as many familiar were supposed to reside in rings, lockets and other trinkets worn by the wizard or sorcerer.

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