Medicine man in Magic
AMONGST the Central Australian natives there is no such thing as belief in natural death; however old or decrepit a man or woman may be when this takes place it is at once supposed that it has been brought about by the magic influence of some enemy, and in the normal condition of the tribe the deat…
- Record ID
- 1,277
- Year
- 1,899
- Source
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1277
- Source
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Publication
- Native Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
- Published
- 1899
- Narrative type
- Descriptive Belief Records
- Public-text label
- Medicine man
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Central Australia, NT (NT): B
- State or territory
- NT
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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AMONGST the Central Australian natives there is no such thing as belief in natural death; however old or decrepit a man or woman may be when this takes place it is at once supposed that it has been brought about by the magic influence of some enemy, and in the normal condition of the tribe the death of one individual is followed by the murder of some one else who is supposed to be guilty of having caused the death. Not infrequently the dying man will whisper in the ear of a Railtchawa, or medicine man, the name of the man whose magic is killing him. If this be not done then there is no difficulty, by some other method, of fixing.
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