wizard in The Australian Race, volume 1
ks is the belief that several things of importance can be effected by means of charms and incantations. The tribes differ somewhat in details and ceremonies, but there is no doubt that the system is the same throughout. The prin- cipal object to which sorcery is applied is taking the lives of enemi…
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- 1,895
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- 1,886
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- 1895
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- The Australian Race, volume 1; Edward Micklethwaite Curr
- Published
- 1886
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- wizard
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
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- Eastern Australia: B
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ks is the belief that several things of importance can be effected by means of charms and incantations. The tribes differ somewhat in details and ceremonies, but there is no doubt that the system is the same throughout. The prin- cipal object to which sorcery is applied is taking the lives of enemies. It is an universal belief of the Blacks that a conjuror, wizard, or doctor (as bushmen commonly call and I shall continue to call that personage), by manipulating 46 THE AUSTRALIAN RAGE: in certain ways any object which has been in the possession of another, or by chanting certain songs over such object, can charm away the life of.
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