Here, then, is a fetich-worshipper.

The stick or stone is the medium of communication between the man and the spirits who can bless or harm him, and which to his mind are as countlessly numerous as the swarms of mosquitoes which he drives out of and away from his summer cottage by smudge fires in August.
One need not travel in Yezo or Saghalin to see practical Fetichism.

Go where you will in Japan, there are fetich worshippers.

Among the country folk, the "_inaka_" of Japanese parlance, Fetichism is seen in its grossest forms.

Yet among probably millions of Buddhists, especially of certain sects, the Nichiren for example, and even among the rationalistic Confucians, there are fetich-worshippers.