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Title: Australia's greatest need : with an introductory note by the Archbishop of Brisbane
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tomlin, James William Sackett, 1871-
Subjects: Church of England in Australia and Tasmania Missions New Guinea
Publisher: (London) : Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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belongs to its familyor totem. They are his brothers and hedoes not eat them. The method oftotemic descent differs in different tribes.In some tribes it depends upon the placeof birth, in other tribes a man belongs tothe totem of his father or his mother.There seems to be a fairly universal beliefin the reincarnation of ancestors and, sincethe arrival of the white man, the theoryhas grown that a black man—especially ablack chief—rises a white man. Theescaped convict Buckley, exhausted withhunger, fell down to rest upon a blackfellows grave and seized the spear in hishand which had been stuck there to markthe spot. As he slept, some lubras foundhim in that position. The tribe immed-iately pronounced him to be their deadchief risen again, and took him to be theirmaster. For over thirty years he livedwith them until he was discovered by hisfellow whites at the time that Melbournewas founded. The belief in magic is ^ e.g. wild cat, witchetty grub, evening star, yam,kangaroo, emu, etc.
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>»**► ^^r^ The Aboriginals 193 deep-rooted. Death is never (kie tonatural causes but to magic. When yourrelative dies, duty impels you to find outwho has been practising magic againsthim, and when you have marked downyour man you play tit for tat. In thisconnexion the horrible practice of bone-pointing plays a part (a custom which iswidespread in the savage world). Goingaway secretly with an accomplice intothe bush, you point the bone correctlyinto the ground and naming your enemybreathe into the bone the most horriblecurses. Kill Goggle-Eye, kill Goggle-Eye, make him dead fellow :Pull away fat, make him bone-fellow :Shut him up throat, shut him up throat:Break him out heart, break him out heart:Kill him deadfellow, kill him deadfellow :Spose he eat fish, poison him with it :Spose he eat food, poison him with it. Goggle-Eye must now be made aware that the bone has been pointed for him. So after some days, in the dead of night, the sorcerer brings it into the camp and leaves it n

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