Note 314 — Chapter III · SYMPATHETIC MAGIC

E. Clement, “Ethnographical Notes on the Western Australian Aborigines,” Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, xvi. (1904) p. 11. Among the western coastal tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia the foreskin is held against the bellies of those who have been present at the operation, then it is placed in a bag which the operator wears round his neck till the wound has healed, when he throws it into the fire. See H. Basedow, Anthropological Notes on the Western Coastal Tribes of the Northern Territory of South Australia, p. 12 (printed by Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide).