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spirits in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

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1904
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spirits in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia

, and no woman will strike one of them with a hatchet for fear lest the blow should disturb one of the spirits, and it should immediately come out and enter her body. On the other hand we do, now and again, though only rarely, meet with beliefs similar to those of the Arunta — as, for example, in t…

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3,339
Year
1,904
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3339
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen
Published
1904 public-domain Central Australian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
spirits
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Central Australia: B
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, and no woman will strike one of them with a hatchet for fear lest the blow should disturb one of the spirits, and it should immediately come out and enter her body. On the other hand we do, now and again, though only rarely, meet with beliefs similar to those of the Arunta — as, for example, in the case of the present headman of the Wollunqua totem, whose spirit ancestor inhabited a special water-hole close by the side of Thapauerlu, where the Wollunqua itself lives. In the Arunta tribe the spirit individual is spoken of as an iruntaHnia^ and in addition to the latter a second spirit issues from the Nanja, whom the natives call.

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