>>63881602
Read about the Kamajors and other hunting societies. The junta in Burkina Faso has been recruiting these guys (they go by a different name there) and they'll wear magic jackets with pouches sewn into them and they carry magical totems in the charms.

These are primitive fetishes, and it certainly looks primitive, but fundamentally it's no different from wearing a cross around your neck. Or in highly modern, industrialized and consumer societies, how people treat fandom, or build "shrines" with their Star Wars collection, or how people look to acquiring consumer objects as a way of gaining certain powers. We basically do the same shit but we have more money and factories and stuff like that:
https://youtu.be/JPBpZCTRM0I