Arunta

But archæological research having established the fact that phallicism has, at one time or another, been common to nearly all races, it seems probable that the Arunta tribe represents a deviation from the normal line of mental evolution.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

Among the Arunta the men of the witchetty grub totem perform ceremonies for multiplying the grub which the other members of the tribe use as food.

Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 1922

Among the Arunta the men of the witchetty grub totem perform ceremonies for multiplying the grub which the other members of the tribe use as food.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

The Arunta of the same region forbid menstruous women to gather the irriakura bulbs, which form a staple article of diet for both men and women.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

The Arunta of the same region forbid menstruous women to gather the irriakura bulbs, which form a staple article of diet for both men and women.

Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth. § 4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty 1922

` ` In order to multiply Emus which are an important article of food, the men of the Emu totem in the Arunta tribe proceed as follows: They clear a small spot of level ground, and opening veins in their arms they let the blood stream out until the surface of the ground for a space of about three square yards is soaked with it.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

The same among Kaffirs, Congo tribes, Senegalese, etc. Also among the Arunta of Australia.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

"Marriage-rites of union are essentially identical with love charms," and he refers in illustration to the custom of the Australian Arunta, among whom the man or woman by making music on the bull-roarer compels a person of the opposite sex to court him or her, the marriage being thus completed.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

Arunta, the, of Central Australia, 94; ceremonies connected with totems, 119 _sqq.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

The last example of such ceremonies which I shall cite is one of the emu totem in the Arunta tribe.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897