[1287] This is the case in which the Dieri, according to Jason, invoke the Mura-mura of water during a drought.
[1288] Op. cit., p. 262.
[1289] It is also possible that the belief in the morally tempering virtues of suffering (see above, p. 312) has added something here. Since sorrow sanctifies and raises the religious level of the worshipper, it may also raise him up again when he falls lower than usual.
[1290] Cf. what we have said of expiation in our Division du travail social3, pp. 64 ff.
[1291] See above, p. 301.
[1292] Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., p. 460; Nor. Tr., p. 601; Roth, North Queensland Ethnography, Bulletin No. 5, p. 24. It is useless to multiply references for so well-known a fact.
[1293] However, Spencer and Gillen cite one case where churinga are placed on the head of the dead man (Nat. Tr., p. 156). But they admit that the fact is unique and abnormal (ibid., p. 157), while Strehlow energetically denies it (II, p. 79).
[1294] Smith, Rel. of Semites, p. 153; cf. p. 446, the additional note, Holiness, Uncleanness and Taboo.
[1295] Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 448-450; Brough Smyth, I, pp. 118, 120; Dawson, p. 67; Eyre, II, p. 251; Roth, North Queensland Ethn., Bull. Mo. 9, in Rec. of the Austral. Museum, VI, No. 5, p. 367.
[1296] See above, p. 320.