Fetichism in West Africa

Fetichism in West Africa

Robert Hamill Nassau, american presbyterian missionary (1835-1921)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- CONSTITUTION OF NATIVE AFRICAN SOCIETY SOCIOLOGY

-04- THE IDEA OF GOD, RELIGION

-05- POLYTHEISM, IDOLATRY

-06- SPIRITUAL BEINGS IN AFRICAN RELIGION

-07- SPIRITUAL BEINGS IN AFRICA

-08- FETICHISM, ITS PHILOSOPHY, A PHYSICAL SALVATION, CHARMS AND AMULETS

-09- THE FETICH, A WORSHIP

-10- THE FETICH, WITCHCRAFT, A WHITE ART, SORCERY

-11- THE FETICH, WITCHCRAFT, A BLACK ART, DEMONOLOGY

-12- FETICHISM, A GOVERNMENT

-13- THE FETICH, ITS RELATION TO THE FAMILY

-14- THE FETICH

-15- THE FETICH, SUPERSTITION IN CUSTOMS

-16- FETICH, ITS RELATION TO THE FUTURE LIFE

-17- FETICHISM, SOME OF ITS PRACTICAL EFFECTS

-18- TALES OF FETICH BASED ON FACT

-19- FETICH IN FOLK LORE

-20- FOOTNOTES