spirit in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines

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3210

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Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines; Walter E. Roth

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1897 public-domain Queensland ethnological study exposed through an exact Internet Archive item

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Ghost and Apparition Accounts

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spirit

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Federation Era

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North-west-central Queensland, QLD (QLD): B

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QLD

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(sect. 263), the pebble, flint, bone, &e., that Aanmare put there, with the result that the individual recovers and becomes a doctor himself. ‘The bone so removed, the kanmare-bone, is a rather long one, and coloured dark: as usual, it is said to be sharpened at one extremity, and covered with cementing substance at the other. Mo-ma, the ghost, or shade, or spirit of someone departed can also initiate an individual into the mysteries of the craft. It is he that haunts the graves of the dead: the Mitakoodi call him Lim-bi-ja-koo-lun. Another method of initiating the doctor or munguni-maro is to put into the novice, by means to be.

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