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wizard in Among Cannibals

YEAR
1889
PLACE
Queensland
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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wizard in Among Cannibals

lso believe that they themselves can produce rain, particularly with the help of their wizards. To produce rain they call milka. When on our expeditions we were overtaken by violent tropical storms my blacks always became enraged at the strangers who had caused the rain. Even my naive friend Yokkai…

Record ID
3,960
Year
1,889
Source
Internet Archive
Index status
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Record ID
3960
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Among Cannibals; Carl Lumholtz
Published
1889
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
wizard
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Herbert River, QLD (QLD): B
State or territory
QLD
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lso believe that they themselves can produce rain, particularly with the help of their wizards. To produce rain they call milka. When on our expeditions we were overtaken by violent tropical storms my blacks always became enraged at the strangers who had caused the rain. Even my naive friend Yokkai once boasted that he and the young Mangola-Maggi, who was a wizard, had produced rain to worry other blacks. I never succeeded in discovering myths and legends among the blacks of Herbert river ; but they are close observers of the starry heavens, and I was surprised to find that they had different names for the planets, distinguishing.

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