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- proper noun An
indigenous people of theSouth Australian desert . - proper noun The
language of the Dieri people.
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Examples
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The Dieri of Central Australia believe that if women at these times were to eat fish or bathe in a river, the fish would all die and the water would dry up.
Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth. § 4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty 1922
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Among the Dieri tribe of Central Australia, when a serious illness occurs, the medicine-men expel Cootchie or the devil by beating the ground in and outside of the camp with the stuffed tail of a kangaroo, until they have chased the demon away to some distance from the camp.
Chapter 56. The Public Expulsion of Evils. § 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils 1922
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The Dieri tribe of Central Australia regard as very sacred certain trees which are supposed to be their fathers transformed; hence they speak with reverence of these trees, and are careful that they shall not be cut down or burned.
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The Dieri tribe of Central Australia regard as very sacred certain trees which are supposed to be their fathers transformed; hence they speak with reverence of these trees, and are careful that they shall not be cut down or burned.
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The Dieri also imagine that the foreskins taken from lads at circumcision have a great power of producing rain.
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Among the Dieri tribe of Central Australia, when a serious illness occurs, the medicine-men expel Cootchie or the devil by beating the ground in and outside of the camp with the stuffed tail of a kangaroo, until they have chased the demon away to some distance from the camp.
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In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half-starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura-muras, to grant them power to make a heavy rain-fall.
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922
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The Dieri also imagine that the foreskins taken from lads at circumcision have a great power of producing rain.
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922
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The Dieri of Central Australia believe that if women at these times were to eat fish or bathe in a river, the fish would all die and the water would dry up.
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In time of severe drought the Dieri of Central Australia, loudly lamenting the impoverished state of the country and their own half-starved condition, call upon the spirits of their remote predecessors, whom they call Mura-muras, to grant them power to make a heavy rain-fall.
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