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…
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- 3,960
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- 1,889
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- Record ID
- 3960
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- Publication
- Among Cannibals; Carl Lumholtz
- Published
- 1889
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- 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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