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wizard in Spirits and Wirreenun

YEAR
1905
PLACE
New South Wales
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wizard in Spirits and Wirreenun

als like us.' We left it. That evening a messenger arrived from the sheep station to say my cook's mother had died just before sunset. The camp were firm believers in Bootha's witch-stick after that. It was just as well we did not touch that stick; had we done so, Bootha says we should have broken…

Record ID
1,446
Year
1,905
Source
Wikisource
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Record ID
1446
Source
Wikisource
Publication
The Euahlayi Tribe; K. Langloh Parker
Published
1905
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
wizard
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
North-western New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
Source voice
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Publicness
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als like us.' We left it. That evening a messenger arrived from the sheep station to say my cook's mother had died just before sunset. The camp were firm believers in Bootha's witch-stick after that. It was just as well we did not touch that stick; had we done so, Bootha says we should have broken out in sores all over our bodies. They say that long ago the wirreenuns always used to have a sort of totem wizard-stick guarding the front of their camps. Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=The_Euahlayi_Tribe/Chapter_6&oldid=11419547" Hidden categories: Subpages Headers applying DefaultSort key Search Search The.

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