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“. . Aboriginal medicine-men, so far from being rogues, charlatans or ignoramuses, are men of high degree; that is, men who have taken a degree in the secret life beyond that taken by most adult males—a step which implies discipline, mental training, courage and perseverance . .
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they are men of respected, and often of outstanding, personality . . they are of immense social significance, the psychological health of the group largely depending on faith in their powers . .
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the various psychic powers attributed to them must not be too readily dismissed as mere primitive magic and ‘makebelieve,’ for many of them have specialized in the working of the human mind, and in the influence of mind on body and of mind on mind.
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” From Aboriginal Men of High Degree by the late Australian anthropologist A. P. Elkin (1945:78-79)
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