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Definition of Churinga
1. a type of amulet [n -S] - See also: amulet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Churinga
Literary usage of Churinga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1899)
"CHAPTER V THE churinga OR BULL ROARERS OF THE ARUNT' AND OTHER TRIBES General
... churinga is the name given by the Arunta natives to certain sacred objects ..."
2. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia by Sir Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1904)
"In all of the tribes with which we are acquainted we meet with churinga or their
equivalents, but it is in the central area only that we find them ..."
3. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1904)
"Their ghosts specially haunt the churinga, or stone amulets, engraved with ...
Mr. Spencer supposes that an old man purposely drops a churinga on the spot, ..."
4. The Clyde Mystery: A Study in Forgeries and Folklore by Andrew Lang (1905)
"The term churinga, " sacred," is used by the Arunta to denote not only the stone
... I am speaking of survivals, and these wooden churinga, at least, ..."
5. Archæology and False Antiquities by Robert Munro (1905)
"churinga OF THE ARUNTA TRIBE, CENTRAL AUSTRALIA as component elements of their
ornamentation. In a few instances there are incomplete circles round some if ..."
6. Primitive Traditional History: The Primitive History and Chronology of India by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1907)
"All the Australian churinga are made of wood or stone, and differ from one ...
But every native, male and female, has a churinga Nanja placed after birth in ..."
7. Across Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1912)
"them as to suggest at once that they have some relation to churinga, have been
unearthed in Europe. It is of course possible that these latter may have been ..."
8. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"... to which the Arunta give the name of churinga : they are for the most part
oval or elongated and flattened stones or slabs of wood, varying in length ..."
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