| 释义 |
‖ koradji Austral.|ˈkɒrədʒɪ|
Also 8 carradygan, carrahdy, 9 coradge(e, karaji, kiradjee, korradgee.
[Austral. Aboriginal word.]
Amongst the Australian Aborigines, a medicine-man.
1793J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. xxi. 523 Having taken leave of their new friends the Car-ra-dy-gans (doctors), our party set off. 1798D. Collins Acct. Eng. Colony New South Wales I. 594, I think I may term the car-rah-dy their high priest of superstition. 1845J. O. Balfour Sk. New South Wales 14 The coradgees, who are their wise men, have, they suppose, the power of healing and foretelling. Each tribe possesses one of these learned pundits, and if their wisdom were in proportion to their age, they would indeed be Solons. 1865W. Howitt Hist. Discovery in Austral. I. 287 One who seemed a coradge, or priest, went through a strange ceremony of singing, and touching his eyebrows, nose and breast, crossing himself, and pointing to the sky like an old Druid. 1867S. Bennett Hist. Austral. Discovery 250 Kiradjee, a doctor. 1885R. M. Praed Austral. Life 23 The koradgees, or medicine men, are the chief repositories (of the secrets of their religion). 1892J. Fraser Aborigines New South Wales 63 For some diseases, the karáji, or native doctor when he is called in, makes passes with his hand over the sick man, much in the same way as a mesmerist will do. 1966[see boyla]. |