rty of producing sickness and death, which, in the absence of sufficiently demonstrable causes, cannot otherwise be accounted for, is one of the most dreaded, as it is universal, of the aboriginal superstitions of North-West-Central Queensland, including the adjoming Upper and Middle Diamantina dis…
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rty of producing sickness and death, which, in the absence of sufficiently demonstrable causes, cannot otherwise be accounted for, is one of the most dreaded, as it is universal, of the aboriginal superstitions of North-West-Central Queensland, including the adjoming Upper and Middle Diamantina districts. The implement can be manufactured by the “ doctor,” “medicine man,” or any other male individual, though were such an one to chance upon a specimen, not his own property, he would immediately wash and destroy it in case of its ever being employed to his own detriment: in the case of a woman, she would immediately fall sick were.
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