RECORD ID

1328

FIGURE

Numereji

NARRATIVE

Descriptive Belief Records

PRINTED LABEL

Numereji

PUBLICATION

Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia; Baldwin Spencer

AUTHOR

Not specified

king out of a deep water hole its spirit would Immediately leave its body, run to the water hole, and be drawn under and swallowed up by a Numereji snake. If, {p. 346} 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.

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

1. 01medicine man in The folklore, manners, customs, and languages of the South Australian aborigines1879 · Internet Archive
2. 02ghosts in Old Melbourne Memories1884 · Project Gutenberg
3. 03haunted in Old Melbourne Memories1884 · Project Gutenberg
4. 04haunted in Old Melbourne Memories1884 · Project Gutenberg
5. 05haunted in Old Melbourne Memories1884 · Project Gutenberg
6. 06spirit in Old Melbourne Memories1884 · Project Gutenberg