[910] Strehlow, I, p. 14. When there are twins, the first one is believed to have been conceived in this manner.
[911] Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., p. 327.
[912] Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 358, 381, 385; Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., p. 334; Nor. Tr., pp. 501, 530.
[913] As the magician can either cause or cure sickness, we sometimes find, besides these magical spirits whose function is to do evil, others who forestall or neutralize the evil influence of the former. Cases of this sort will be found in Nor. Tr., pp. 501-502. The fact that the latter are magic just as much as the former is well shown by the fact that the two have the same name, among the Arunta. So they are different aspects of a single magic power.
[914] Strehlow, I, p. 9. Putiaputia is not the only personage of this sort of whom the Arunta myths speak: certain portions of the tribe give a different name to the hero to whom the same invention is ascribed. We must not forget that the extent of the territory occupied by the Arunta prevents their mythology from being completely homogeneous.
[915] Spencer and Gillen, Nor. Tr., p. 493.
[916] Ibid., p. 498.
[917] Ibid., pp. 498 f.
[918] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 135.
[919] Ibid., pp. 476 ff.