medicine man in The Northern Tribes of Central Australia
y those of one of the spirits. Then he is brought to life again, told that he is now a doctor, shown how to take bones and evil magic out of men, and carried up into the sky. Finally he is brought down and placed near to his own camp, where he is found by his friends who have been mourning for him.…
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- 3,344
- Year
- 1,904
- Source
- Internet Archive
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- Record ID
- 3344
- 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
- Descriptive Belief Records
- Public-text label
- medicine man
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Central Australia: B
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- Publicness
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y those of one of the spirits. Then he is brought to life again, told that he is now a doctor, shown how to take bones and evil magic out of men, and carried up into the sky. Finally he is brought down and placed near to his own camp, where he is found by his friends who have been mourning for him. They ask him what is the matter, and he tells them that the spirits have made him into a doctor. Amongst the powers possessed by a Mara medicine man is that of climbing at night-time by means of a rope, invisible to ordinary mortals, into the sky, where he can hold converse with the star people. The idea in the Anula tribe, which in.
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