wizard in The Australian Race, volume 1
be always a violence. He cannot imagine that a man who was well two weeks ago should now be lying at death's door with disease, unless some potent wizard had interfered, and by witchcraft broken the thread of life and inflicted sickness." The Revd. Duff Macdonald, in his work entitled Africana^ or…
- Record ID
- 1,898
- Year
- 1,886
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
This page records what a public source contains. It is not verification of the supernatural claim described by that source.
Record context
- Record ID
- 1898
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- The Australian Race, volume 1; Edward Micklethwaite Curr
- Published
- 1886
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- wizard
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Eastern Australia: B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Text Item
Source-grounded excerpt
be always a violence. He cannot imagine that a man who was well two weeks ago should now be lying at death's door with disease, unless some potent wizard had interfered, and by witchcraft broken the thread of life and inflicted sickness." The Revd. Duff Macdonald, in his work entitled Africana^ or the Heart of Heathen Africa, says: — "The native view about witches modifies the whole civil code. Any offence may be brought under the terrible crime of witchcraft." And, again, "The opinion that a man cannot die without L 162 THE AUSTRALIAN RACE: being bewitched is one to which they cling most tenaciously.'* At page 223, the same.
The excerpt is presented as public-source context. Terminology belongs to the cited source and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Browse this record
Related public records
- wizard in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2089gurdur. Wing — K^nba. Wing, outer pinion of — Jili. Wink, to— Butak-butSk. Winter — Maggoro. Witchcraft — Boyl-ya. Withered, dried up ; applied to wood or animals when dead — ^Mandju. Withered; applied to leaves— -Derer…
- wizard in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2101rt]^Binmna. Wind, north-west — Durga ; DtalUjar. Wind, south — Wu:iti. Wind, south-east — Winit ; D-yedik. ' Wind, south-west — Karring. Wind, east— Nandat ; Nangalar. Wind, west — Durga. Wind, sea-breeze— Gulam win. Wi…
- wizard in Queensland, Australia#1771verely, and sometimes other parts of their bodies. Internal diseases are imiformly ascribed to witchcraft or sor- cery. Some black fellow, it is alleged, ill-disposed towards the^i patient, has swallowed a stone or bone…
- wizard in Queensland, Australia#1772would recommend. From their manner of living, and especially from their always having a fire burning on the bare ground in front of their miser- able huts, close to where they sleep, they are peculiarly subject to accid…
- wizard in Queensland, Australia#1773alleged, ill-disposed towards the^i patient, has swallowed a stone or bone, and vomiting it up again, .has spit it out at him, a process which is sure to make him ill, n THE ABORIGINES.. 841 if not to kill him. The wiza…
- wizard in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#1745people," for his cabin adjoined one of their raths. The wizard's assistance was invoked in the case