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AMONGST certain tribes inhabiting the centre of Australia, the last of the initiation ceremonies through which every man must pass before he is fully admitted to all the sacred mysteries of the tribe, takes the form of a series of what may be called ordeals by fire. Some such ceremony is known to us to exist amongst the Urabunna tribe, in the neighbourhood of Lake Eyre; in the Arunta tribe, which extends across the centre of the continent to about seventy miles north of the Macdonnell Range; and also in the Ilparra and Warramunga tribes, who extend at least two hundred miles still further to the north.
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The Engwurra, or Fire Ceremony of Certain Central Australian Tribes1. Nature 56, 136–139 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056136b0
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