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ghost in Magic

YEAR
1899
PLACE
Northern Territory
SOURCE
Internet Sacred Text Archive
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ghost in Magic

unity of watching them—has seen the track of a man or woman he will distinguish it afterwards from that of any other individual of his acquaintance. Most probably the explanation is, not that the native cannot follow the track, but that either he persuades himself that he cannot, or, what is still…

Record ID
1,339
Year
1,899
Source
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Index status
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Record ID
1339
Source
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Publication
Native Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Published
1899
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
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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unity of watching them—has seen the track of a man or woman he will distinguish it afterwards from that of any other individual of his acquaintance. Most probably the explanation is, not that the native cannot follow the track, but that either he persuades himself that he cannot, or, what is still more likely, that the fear of the magic power of the dreaded Kurdaitcha causes him, if he catches sight of such a track, to avoid as much as possible the spot where he has seen it, in just the same way in which an ordinary European peasant will avoid the spot haunted by a ghost. Our impression with regard to the Kurdaitcha is that at the.

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