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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 present day it is merely a matter of myth, though at the same time every native…
- Record ID
- 1,341
- Year
- 1,899
- Source
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1341
- 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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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 present day it is merely a matter of myth, though at the same time every native is firmly convinced that some other native does actually “go Kurdaitcha,” and is quite prepared, as a general rule, to allow others to think that he himself does; he will even go to the length of suffering the pain of having his toe dislocated in order to “prove” that he is a genuine Ertwa Kurdaitcha. p. 484 To those who are personally.
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