goranween

Updated: May 28, 2025

The next translation is that of a chant sung by an old woman to incite the men to avenge the death of a young man who died from a natural cause, but whose death she attributed to witchcraft and sorcery; the natives, who listened to her attentively, called her chanting goranween, or abusing.

Sir George Grey - Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2