devil in The Native Tribes of South Australia
as many old men and women are pockmarked in the face and body. They state that a great number have been carried off by this disease, and I have been shown, on the top of a sandhill, seventy-four graves, which are said to be those of men, women, and children, carried off by this fell disorder. THE D…
- Record ID
- 3,281
- Year
- 1,879
- Source
- Internet Archive
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 3281
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- The Native Tribes of South Australia; George Taplin, James Dominick Woods, William Wyatt, H. A. E. Meyer, C. W. Schürmann, Samuel Gason, J. W. O. Bennett
- Published
- 1879 public-domain South Australian ethnographic book exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- devil
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- South Australia (SA): B
- State or territory
- SA
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as many old men and women are pockmarked in the face and body. They state that a great number have been carried off by this disease, and I have been shown, on the top of a sandhill, seventy-four graves, which are said to be those of men, women, and children, carried off by this fell disorder. THE DOCTOR.— (Koonkie.) The Koonkie is a native who has seen the devil, when a child (the devil is called Kootchie), and is supposed to have received power from him to heal all sick. The way in which a man or woman becomes a doctor, is, that if when young they have had the nightmare, or an unpleasant dream, and relate this to the camp, the.
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