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by any chance, the mother breaks the rule, the father, mother, and child, accompanied by a medicine man, go to the water hole. The father gives the mother a little water in a bark basket. The spirit of the child is attracted, comes up, and is caught by the medicine man, who alone can see it. He imm…
- Record ID
- 1,269
- Year
- 1,914
- Source
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1269
- Source
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Publication
- Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia; Baldwin Spencer
- Published
- 1914
- Narrative type
- Descriptive Belief Records
- Public-text label
- spirit
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Northern Territory, NT (NT): B
- State or territory
- NT
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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by any chance, the mother breaks the rule, the father, mother, and child, accompanied by a medicine man, go to the water hole. The father gives the mother a little water in a bark basket. The spirit of the child is attracted, comes up, and is caught by the medicine man, who alone can see it. He immediately places it in the mother's head, from which it passes down into her breast and the child, who is at once put to the breast, drinks it in with its mother's milk, or Kumilungornu. If the father finds out, when the woman is away, that she has been drinking at a deep water hole, he will at once go to the latter with a medicine man,.
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