"OBSESSION COMPLEX."
ABORIGINE'S STRANGE DEATH.
PECULIAR TRIBAL BELIEF.
BRISBANE, September 10.
A case of pointing the hone, as a result of which an aborigine died, occurred in the Mount Tsa district recently. This is the first fatal case for some vears.
Aborigines believe that if a death bone be pointed at them they are doomed. In this recent ease the aborigine was a healthy man. 40 yearn of a<:», and the bone u>ed was said to be the thigh bone of a plain turkey, topped with beeswax. It is understood that an altercation took placc in a blacks' eamp, and that the Lone was pointed at one aborigine, who shortly afterwards left the camp. Later he waa found on the roadway, apparently in a dying condition. He was unable to tell what bad occurred, and he was taken to hospital, but died shortly afterwards. Following & post mortem examination, the Government medical officer, issued a death certificate showing that the aborigine died of "obsession and persecution complex."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 12
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