ghost in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines
his alleged would-be destroyer, and not that of someone else who may have been “pointed”? at in mistake. He therefore, in company with the doctor who procured it, will in a few days’ time, to avert suspicion, leave the camp after dark, and in some sequest ered spot kindle a fire, over which they wa…
- Record ID
- 1,382
- Year
- 1,897
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1382
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines; Walter E. Roth
- Published
- 1897
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- North-west-central Queensland, QLD (QLD): B
- State or territory
- QLD
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Text Item
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his alleged would-be destroyer, and not that of someone else who may have been “pointed”? at in mistake. He therefore, in company with the doctor who procured it, will in a few days’ time, to avert suspicion, leave the camp after dark, and in some sequest ered spot kindle a fire, over which they warm the bone-apparatus with its ghostly contents. Leaving the medicine-man to keep watch, he returns to camp, divulges his mission to no one, but enters into con- versation with his alleged assailant on any ordinary everyday topic, watches most carefully to see if he is at all sick or not, and may casually get him to admit that he is.
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