wizard in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1
by hunger. Superior strength, and the influence which age commands, might have sufiiced for the easy government of the women aud children in this matter ; but the young men must have had a firm belief in the doctrines taught by the sorcerers, or they would never have abstained from good food which…
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- 1,878
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- Internet Archive
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- 1754
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- The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1; R. Brough Smyth
- Published
- 1878
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- Retellings and Adaptations
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- wizard
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Victoria and Tasmania (VIC): B
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- VIC
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by hunger. Superior strength, and the influence which age commands, might have sufiiced for the easy government of the women aud children in this matter ; but the young men must have had a firm belief in the doctrines taught by the sorcerers, or they would never have abstained from good food which they themselves had procured, and patiently watched the old wizards of the camji while they ate the emu and feasted on the rich meat afforded by the iguana. MiRRK-TONGS, ShELL-MOUNDS, AND StONE-SHELTEKS. The large heaps of earth, charcoal, and ashes — the cooking-places of the natives — the shell-mounds on the sea-coast, aud the.
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