supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines
flints, bones, or gee-gaws in his “ inside” (sect. 261). This ing is the most ordinary method. JJulkari is the supernatural power who makes everything which the Boulia District aboriginals cannot otherwise account for : he is a good, beneficent person and never kills anyone. Other doctors obtain th…
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- 1,897
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- Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines; Walter E. Roth
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- Spirit-Person Narratives
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- supernatural
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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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flints, bones, or gee-gaws in his “ inside” (sect. 261). This ing is the most ordinary method. JJulkari is the supernatural power who makes everything which the Boulia District aboriginals cannot otherwise account for : he is a good, beneficent person and never kills anyone. Other doctors obtain their powers through the instrumentality of Kan-ma-re, a huge supernatural water-snake with a mane-.ike head of hair. He it is who drowns people (and in this connection it is interesting to note the neighbouring Kalkadoon word kan-da-jin, to swim); the same reptile is spoken of as tul-lo-wn among the Mitakoodi (cf. the Kalkadoon name for.
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