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medicine man in Australian Legends

YEAR
1925
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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medicine man in Australian Legends

erbore them and joined the river. A spirit often came out from that glen. it was speckled with glowing fires that flashed and were covered, and flashed and were covered, over and over again. The spirit was light and ethereal, for it could never be seen in its entirety and it could never be heard. A…

Record ID
1,917
Year
1,925
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1917
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Australian Legends; C. W. Peck
Published
1925
Narrative type
Descriptive Belief Records
Public-text label
medicine man
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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erbore them and joined the river. A spirit often came out from that glen. it was speckled with glowing fires that flashed and were covered, and flashed and were covered, over and over again. The spirit was light and ethereal, for it could never be seen in its entirety and it could never be heard. All the tribe knew of it, and all held it in awe. All but the medicine man, and he, sometimes, when he had donned the mystic pipe-clay bands, went right up to the spring and talked with it there. When he came back he bore with him beautiful bunches of ferns of many kinds-Hymenophyllum and Asplenium, portions of the fronds of the.

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