Note 1172 — Chapter III · THE POSITIVE CULT—continued II.—Imitative Rites and the Principle of Causality
Joseph Ward Swain translation
The same process is employed among the Arunta (Strehlow, III, p. 132). Of course we may ask if this effusion of blood is not an oblation designed to win the powers which produce rain. However, Gason says distinctly that this is a way of imitating the water which falls.