witch in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia
garoo—an old fur boa which she had got from the whites. Besides this boa she had a number of charms round her neck, and, in her bag portions of the bones of animals, beads, pieces of crockery, bits of brass and iron, and strangely-shaped stones, each having its particular spell, and capable of prod…
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- 3,247
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- 1,881
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- Internet Archive
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- Record ID
- 3247
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- 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
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- Public-text label
- witch
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Western District, VIC (VIC): B
- State or territory
- VIC
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garoo—an old fur boa which she had got from the whites. Besides this boa she had a number of charms round her neck, and, in her bag portions of the bones of animals, beads, pieces of crockery, bits of brass and iron, and strangely-shaped stones, each having its particular spell, and capable of producing good or evil, as suited her interests. This clever old witch 56 AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. was very much annoyed when any white person scrutinized and exposed the contents of her bag; but the natives, though the more sensible of them were not sorry to see her powers and mysterious charms ridiculed, were too much afraid of her to smile,.
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