RECORD ID

1284

FIGURE

Arungquiltha

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

Arungquiltha

PUBLICATION

Native Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

This is the only case which has come to our knowledge in which a woman is decorated with down fixed on with blood, and in which she actually handles a Churinga. The latter, of course, is not one of the ancestral Churinga, but it is regarded as being a sacred stick, and is spoken of as a Churinga just as are certain other similarly shaped sticks which are used in various ceremonies, for which they may be specially made. All that the woman is told is that the stick has been sung over, and is what is called Arungquiltha, that is, charged with magic and evil influence.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

1. 01Arungquiltha in Magic1899 · Internet Sacred Text Archive
2. 02Arungquiltha in Magic1899 · Internet Sacred Text Archive
3. 03Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive