i guess i'm rather into the fetish magick, i come up with pretty dangleysl all over...everything from silver belled chimes to a crystal chime with a crone flying over the moon in my car...i like chimes because they are supposed to attract the little people, and well, the crone has symbolism of wisdome and the dark ways...i also have a silver skeleton hanging from my car, i figure like the old costume concept...to keep death away, show he's already there...i've never been in an accident, and always seem to be lucky when i should have been...stopping just in time after going fifty and not seeing the red light, or the red truck infront but all i got was an okay and a sigh of relief...

so who else has charms?

I have a beautiful crystal chime which hangs in front of my window, it reflects the sunrise and sunset over my cream walls.

I had a dragon pendant with a quartz crystal on it's tail .. but it got lost.

..*sighs*..

Um Jordyn..you do know that fetish magick is the art of Making fetishes, fetches, poppets?

yes necro, i'm aware of that fact..i was curious who else practices it, even if they don't realize it...My fetishes go beyond toe sucking...and i enjoy making them, anything from spendy trinkets purchased specifically for an intent, tied together with a chant...to the more simple aspects of poseys made with wild trappings i've found on walks...

the chimes in my car window was made with a specific intent...the circle for my twenty year old car to continue running as well as it does, the crystal to defract and break up negativity(i suffer horrible road rage) the chimes i find relaxing and calming, and the crone on the moon a symbol for wisdom to not go down a path of destruction with my large '84 buick...the skeleton is really more of a charm than a fetish...I could get into those i have hanging in and around my house, right down to silver belled ribbons tied to a lilac bush with with a collection fo bird feeders...to honor the goddess and her messengers, while attracting wee ones to my home environment....

unless you are thinking of something else?

Well fetish magick refered to the making of fetch as well as poppet, which is the European term for a Voodoo doll, or something charged as a focal point for someone life force imprint.
Which doesn't actually sound like what you mean.

A poppet is just a charm, different to a voodoo doll, it is often used to focus energies in a positive way.
Its name has been tainted by connotations to 'black' magicks

sybelle's right...

fet·ish also fet·ich ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ftsh, ftsh)
n.
1. An object that is believed to have magical or spiritual powers, especially such an object associated with animistic or shamanistic religious practices.

2. An object of unreasonably excessive attention or reverence: made a fetish of punctuality.

3. Something, such as a material object or a nonsexual part of the body, that arouses sexual desire and may become necessary for sexual gratification.

4. An abnormally obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation.

I'd say mine is more animistic than shamanistic...i don't agree with some concepts of shamanism, and i definitly have the obsessive fixation covered too.

Ok, I will bow to you ladies. Although I will say I should have said European equivalent of a Voodoo doll, because they can be used in the same way (I made a Poppet of myself once).
I dont have a dictionary handy whats the current definition of A Fetch?

gimmicks

Seriously though, I just got a nice piece of smoky quartz that when I concentrate on it, the smoke actually looks like it's moving.
That's the closest I come to object based magic, a focus point.

sorry, I'll get my coat

fero may know about the english aspect of fetch...

fetch1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fch)
v. fetched, fetch·ing, fetch·es
v. tr.
To come or go after and take or bring back: The puppy fetched the stick that we had tossed.

To cause to come.
To bring in as a price: fetched a thousand dollars at auction.
To interest or attract.

To draw in (breath); inhale.
To bring forth (a sigh, for example) with obvious effort.
Informal. To deliver (a blow) by striking; deal.
Nautical. To arrive at; reach: fetched port after a month at sea.

v. intr.

To go after something and return with it.
To retrieve killed game. Used of a hunting dog.
To take an indirect route.
Nautical.
To hold a course.
To turn about; veer.

n.
The act or an instance of fetching.
A stratagem or trick.

The distance over which a wind blows.
The distance traveled by waves with no obstruction.

Phrasal Verb:
fetch up
To reach a stopping place or goal; end up: “He went down and out at the same time and fetched up on his back clear in the middle of the room” (Madison Smart Bell).
To make up (lost time, for example).
To bring forth; produce.
To bring to a halt; stop.

[Middle English fecchen, from Old English feccean. See ped- in Indo-European Roots.]
fetcher n.

fetch2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fch)
n. Chiefly British
A ghost; an apparition.
A doppelgänger.

Interesting, isn't amazing how language changes over time.

Anyway, my evil little secret is I make dreamcatchers, Amulets and charmed bracelets for friends when needed.... Although finding the feathers can be a bitch.... I am also known to bless water if such a need arises.

i'm always finding feathers...my favorite is a red tailed hawk feather i found in a field when picking flowers after it swooped me...i believe that's one of my totems...i'm always seeing them soaring or just sitting on signs as i drive by...If i go out to my lilac bush i find a variety of little bird feather, chickadees, sapsuckers and sparrows are most common. However last summer there were some red winged black birds...i'm always surrounded by birds.

I have taken to feeding the Magpies bread... hopefully in return they will start giving me feathers.

magpies are fun to feed, i spent a summer feeding one a few years, i forgot the bread one morning and it actually followed me to my destination and kept swooping at me with a caw...not happy birds if you forget them, but they have tempers and memory.

Well all Crows are smart, but I dont imagine I will have that problem.... still no feathers.

take a walk in the woods...

Probably a Good Idea, Except that there are trees everywhere, and New Zealand doesn't have Woods as such we have Bush.

hmmmm...that presents an obstacle...get some bird feeders and spread them out through your area...the birds come to eat and perhaps will leave you gifts...invite more than just magpies

But..But I like Black and white feathers...*pout*