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devil in Among Cannibals

YEAR
1889
PLACE
Queensland
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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devil in Among Cannibals

r thing. On Herbert river the natives need only to know the name of the person in question, and for this reason they rarely use their proper names in addressing or speaking of each other, but simply their class- names. The wizard is, as a rule, a man far advanced in years, but I knew a youth of onl…

Record ID
3,959
Year
1,889
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3959
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Among Cannibals; Carl Lumholtz
Published
1889
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
devil
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Herbert River, QLD (QLD): B
State or territory
QLD
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r thing. On Herbert river the natives need only to know the name of the person in question, and for this reason they rarely use their proper names in addressing or speaking of each other, but simply their class- names. The wizard is, as a rule, a man far advanced in years, but I knew a youth of only twenty who enjoyed a great reputation for his sorcery. The wizard is also the physician of the tribe, and imagines that he can cure all diseases and that he has great power over the " devil-devil." I once met a black man who told me that he personally had been the victim of strange wizards, and that ever since that time he had been a.

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