devil in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia
se stones in his wallet, and lends them to sick people without fee or reward. Sunstroke is not common, although the natives never wear any head-dress ; but the effect of the sun’s rays are known to be injurious to the brain, and to cause death. The rays of the moon are also believed to be hurtful;…
- Record ID
- 3,245
- Year
- 1,881
- Source
- Internet Archive
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 3245
- Source
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- Publication
- Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia; James Dawson
- Published
- 1881 public-domain western Victorian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- devil
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Western District, VIC (VIC): B
- State or territory
- VIC
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
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se stones in his wallet, and lends them to sick people without fee or reward. Sunstroke is not common, although the natives never wear any head-dress ; but the effect of the sun’s rays are known to be injurious to the brain, and to cause death. The rays of the moon are also believed to be hurtful; and, when the moon is looked at too long by any person, ‘the devil in it makes them whirl round, and tumble helplessly into the fire.’ The aborigines were not subject, in former times, to pulmonary complaints, though they were very much exposed to the weather. At all seasons of the year the men, while travelling in a strange country,.
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