wizard in The Aborigines of New South Wales
on which they may have possessed. So, when an Australian is sick, if the sickness is seen to come from some intelligible cause, such as a cold or a surfeit in eating, the usual native remedies are applied, and the matter ends there ; but if the illness comes from fierce pains in the body, or genera…
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- 3,673
- Year
- 1,892
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- Internet Archive
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- Record ID
- 3673
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- Publication
- The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser
- Published
- 1892
- Narrative type
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- Public-text label
- wizard
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- New South Wales (NSW): B
- State or territory
- NSW
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on which they may have possessed. So, when an Australian is sick, if the sickness is seen to come from some intelligible cause, such as a cold or a surfeit in eating, the usual native remedies are applied, and the matter ends there ; but if the illness comes from fierce pains in the body, or general debility, or from a swelling of any kind, then some wicked wizard at a distance has been turning the point of a magic bone at him, with incantations, to do him harm, or has been burning a portion of his hair against him, or some other refuse, that he has incau- tiously left exposed ; or an evil spirit, roving about the camp at night,.
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