spirit ancestor in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia
, and no woman will strike one of them with a hatchet for fear lest the blow should disturb one of the spirits, and it should immediately come out and enter her body. On the other hand we do, now and again, though only rarely, meet with beliefs similar to those of the Arunta — as, for example, in t…
- Record ID
- 1,923
- Year
- 1,904
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1923
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- The Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
- Published
- 1904
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- spirit ancestor
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Central Australia, NT/SA: B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
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, and no woman will strike one of them with a hatchet for fear lest the blow should disturb one of the spirits, and it should immediately come out and enter her body. On the other hand we do, now and again, though only rarely, meet with beliefs similar to those of the Arunta — as, for example, in the case of the present headman of the Wollunqua totem, whose spirit ancestor inhabited a special water-hole close by the side of Thapauerlu, where the Wollunqua itself lives. In the Arunta tribe the spirit individual is spoken of as an iruntaHnia^ and in addition to the latter a second spirit issues from the Nanja, whom the natives call.
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