medicine man in Across Australia, volume 2
doubt among the onlookers as to his having really done this. Then once more the projecting of the Atnongara stones is repeated, and after this, crouching down over the sick man, he places his mouth upon the affected part and sucks until at last the Ullinka is ex- tracted— either in fragments or, ve…
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- 1,912
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- 3174
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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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- Descriptive Belief Records
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- medicine man
- Archive period
- Federation Era
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- Central Australia: B
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doubt among the onlookers as to his having really done this. Then once more the projecting of the Atnongara stones is repeated, and after this, crouching down over the sick man, he places his mouth upon the affected part and sucks until at last the Ullinka is ex- tracted— either in fragments or, very rarely, and only if he be a great and very distinguished medicine man — whole — and shown to the wondering audience, the Atnongara stones returning once more into his own body. CHAPTER XIV MAGIC Almost every action in the life of a Central Australian savage from the day of his birth to that of his death is associated, in some way or.
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