spirits in Across Australia, volume 2
spirits called Mundadji and Munkaninji, who make medicine men, were walking about. Before he knew what was happening, old Mundadji caught him by the neck and killed him. Then he cut him open, right down the middle, took out all his insides and exchanged them for those of himself, which he placed in…
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- 3,140
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- 1,912
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- Internet Archive
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- 3140
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- Across Australia, volume 2; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
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- 1912 public-domain travel and ethnographic text exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
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- spirits
- Archive period
- Federation Era
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- Central Australia: B
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spirits called Mundadji and Munkaninji, who make medicine men, were walking about. Before he knew what was happening, old Mundadji caught him by the neck and killed him. Then he cut him open, right down the middle, took out all his insides and exchanged them for those of himself, which he placed in the body of Kurkutji. After this had been done, the younger spirit, Munkaninji, came up and restored him to life, told him that he was now a medicine man, and showed him how to take " poison bones " out of men. Then he took him up into the sky, and finally brought him down near his camp, where his people were mourning for him, thinking.
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