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supernatural in The Australian Race, volume 1

o burn or bury it, lest, falling into the hands of one who has an evil eye, or is a witch, it should be used as a charm to afflict him with headache." Finally, F. Burton (see Transactions of Ethnological Society , new series, vol. 3^, says: — "In Africa, however, as in Australia, no man, how- ever…

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1894
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The Australian Race, volume 1; Edward Micklethwaite Curr
Published
1886
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supernatural
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Gold Rush Colonial
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Eastern Australia: B
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o burn or bury it, lest, falling into the hands of one who has an evil eye, or is a witch, it should be used as a charm to afflict him with headache." Finally, F. Burton (see Transactions of Ethnological Society , new series, vol. 3^, says: — "In Africa, however, as in Australia, no man, how- ever old, dies a natural death; his friends will certainly find a supernatural cause for it." Another set of customs in which a striking similarity exists between Africans and Australians has reference to marriage. In a paper read by De Chaillu before the Ethnological Society (see Transactions^ vol. 1, p. 305, new series), he says: — "The law.

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