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Medicine man in Magic and Medicine

YEAR
1914
PLACE
Northern Territory
SOURCE
Internet Sacred Text Archive
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Medicine man in Magic and Medicine

At length Morpun, the great medicine man, arrived. For a while he stood silently, some distance off, watching Mukalakki. First he ordered the women to go away, along way off. Mukalakki sat up. Once more the snake came out of his forehead and looked into his eyes but, at that moment, Morpun, who had…

Record ID
1,273
Year
1,914
Source
Internet Sacred Text Archive
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Record ID
1273
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
Medicine man
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Northern Territory, NT (NT): B
State or territory
NT
Source voice
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Publicness
Public Domain Public Web

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At length Morpun, the great medicine man, arrived. For a while he stood silently, some distance off, watching Mukalakki. First he ordered the women to go away, along way off. Mukalakki sat up. Once more the snake came out of his forehead and looked into his eyes but, at that moment, Morpun, who had come close up, made a sudden snatch at it and caught its head. No one but himself and Mukalakki could see it. He held it very firmly and carefully unwound it from Mukalakki's body. When he had done this successfully, he rolled the snake up in his hands and put it in his dilly bag, called Nunguluwara, and, after staying in camp for one.

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