wizard in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1
When a black is ill, or when a black dies, they believe that the sickness or the death is due to eminent powers of witchcraft. In the case of death, they blame some one — and they seek revenge. They say that some men have strange gifts : that they can make any black sick if they think fit. A black…
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- 1,878
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- The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1; R. Brough Smyth
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- 1878 public-domain Victorian and Tasmanian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
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- wizard
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- Gold Rush Colonial
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- Victoria and Tasmania (VIC): B
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- VIC
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When a black is ill, or when a black dies, they believe that the sickness or the death is due to eminent powers of witchcraft. In the case of death, they blame some one — and they seek revenge. They say that some men have strange gifts : that they can make any black sick if they think fit. A black will bear the most excruciating pain if he knows the cause — as, for instance, if he has been wounded. But if sickness overtakes him — such as occurs frequently from over-eating, from hunger, from drinking cold bad water when heated by exer- tion— he grows alarmed. He fancies that some wizard has designs upon him ; and this fear so.
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