Fetichism in West Africa

Fetichism in West Africa

"Fetichism in West Africa" is a book by the Reverend Robert Hamill Nassau, a missionary, published in 1904.

thumb|right|300px|Fetich Magician with horns, wooden mask, spear, and sword, dress of leaves of palm and plantain. ">Frontispiece from "Fetishism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions".

The book relates the facts which Nassau discovered over the course of many years concerning traditional religions and the practice of sorcery in West Africa and how it related to the every-day lives of the people of that region.

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