evil spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia
aerally attacts tenialeg, and the person whom it selects for its victim pines and dies away almost imper- ceptibly. To this creature'e influeiice the aborigines attribute all sores and wounds for which they cannot otherwise account. Its suppoeod shape ia that of a huge winged serpent. It may be a h…
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- 2098
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- A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia; George Fletcher Moore
- Published
- 1842
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- Spirit-Person Narratives
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- Early Colonial
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- Western Australia (WA): B
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- WA
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aerally attacts tenialeg, and the person whom it selects for its victim pines and dies away almost imper- ceptibly. To this creature'e influeiice the aborigines attribute all sores and wounds for which they cannot otherwise account. Its suppoeod shape ia that of a huge winged serpent. It may be a hngeriug remnant of the ti'odilion of the old Serpent or evil spirit. f.liiGAiJiN, hi//.— Ill i very sick ; a, woman who miscarries, or baa any complaint subseijuent to child-birth, is said to be Waugalln, ur under the influeacc of tbo WaugiU. FiUQUt, itiisi Breath ; breathing. ART rUAK, tierb — To pierce through. iR-BUMi, Serb — To.
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