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STRIKE HIM WITH THE BLOOD OF CIRCUMCISION!STRIKE HIM WITH THE TUFT OF EAGLE FEATHERS!STRIKE HIM WITH THE GIRDLE, THE paltando!STRIKE HIM WITH THE manga, THE kundando! So wrote Australian William Cawthorne in his 1848 work The Legend of Kuperree; or the Red Kangaroo, a retelling with extensive embellishments of an Aboriginal myth from South Australia that Cawthorne had heard from a German missionary. The work is eclectic and not exactly scholarly in a modern sense; the lines quoted are from a ...

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