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spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

YEAR
1914
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Northern Territory
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spirit in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

grass, the ceremony is at an end, and they go back to camp. Anyone coming across the remains of the trench, and seeing the stones and log piled up above the small mound, knows that evil magic has been performed. It is supposed that, by the capture of the Yalmuru, the man is left without his protect…

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4,198
Year
1,914
Source
Internet Archive
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4198
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia; Baldwin Spencer
Published
1914
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
spirit
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Northern Territory (NT): B
State or territory
NT
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grass, the ceremony is at an end, and they go back to camp. Anyone coming across the remains of the trench, and seeing the stones and log piled up above the small mound, knows that evil magic has been performed. It is supposed that, by the capture of the Yalmuru, the man is left without his protector. If, for example, he be out in the bush, there will be no spirit to warn him of approaching danger, or guide him to where he can secure his food. Another form of practising evil magic amongst the Kakadu consists in a man who desires to injure an enemy securing some fragment of food that the latter has been eating. First of all he ties.

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