Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Australian Sorcery. [ARTICLE]

Australian Sorcery.

Among the natives of Finke River, Australia, if on? falls sick or dies they at once conclude he must have been bewitched or bitten, or hurt by the devil. At the same time they can bewitch others, the old ones and the medicine men fostering that belief. For this purpose they employ a variety of agencies as charms, including implements of wood and bone, which are thrown by the sorcerers in the direction of their enemy to make him sick or kilt' him, tufts of feathers of the emu and’eagle td give the wearers stren&fh to kill their enemies, and it ITttteimplerneDt; aboutsix inches long, of bone or wobfl, worn through the septum of the nose, by means of which the” also think they can h>y* others.