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Updated: June 19, 2025
Should he, however, be indifferent, or ill-disposed towards the individual or his tribe, he completes the process by going through the form already given, or rather when there are two wirreenuns at the Boogahroo, the receiver of the hair gives it to the other one, who sings the death-song, warms the gooweera, and burns the hair.
In this hole he puts a few Dheal leaves Dheal is the tree sacred to the dead; on top of the leaves he puts the gooweera, then more leaves this done, he goes away. The next day he comes back with his hand he hits the earth beside the buried stick, out jumps the gooweera, his enemy is dead. He takes the stick, which may be used many times, and goes on his way satisfied.
The poison is prevented from entering himself by the ligature he has put round his arm. When the gooweera is heavy enough he ceases pointing it. If he wants to kill the person outright, he goes away, makes a small hole in the earth, makes a fire beside it.
The person from whose head the hair on the gooweera came, then by sympathetic magic, at whatever distance he is, dies a sudden or lingering death according to the incantation sung over the poison-stick. Gooweeras need not necessarily be of wood; bone is sometimes used, and in these latter days even iron.
The best way to make a gooweera effective is to tie on the end of it some hair from the victim's head a lock of hair being, in this country of upside-downs, a hate token instead of one of love. When the lock of hair method is chosen as a means of happy dispatch, the process is carried out by a professional.
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