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What (who) is kurdaitcha - definition
TYPE OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL SORCERER
Cadiche Man; Kurdaitja; Kadaitcha; Bone pointing; Pointing bone; Point the bone; Featherfoot; Gadaidja
![A "boned" man, of the [[Mirning]] people](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/A "boned" man, Minning people, Australia Wellcome M0012310.jpg?width=200 "A \"boned\" man, of the [[Mirning]] people")
kurdaitcha
[k?'d??t??]
(also kadaitcha)
¦ noun Austral.
1. (among Aboriginals) a malignant spirit.
2. a mission of vengeance by an Aboriginal, or the ritual accompanying such a mission.
Origin
prob. from Arrernte gwerdayje.
Kurdaitcha
A kurdaitcha, or kurdaitcha man, also spelt gadaidja, cadiche, kadaitcha, karadji,See James Cowan, Mysteries of the Dream-time: Spiritual Life of the Australian Aborigines, 2nd Revised edition, Prism Press, 1992 (). or kaditcha, is a type of shaman amongst the Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group in Central Australia.
kadaitcha
¦ noun variant form of kurdaitcha.
Wikipedia
Kurdaitcha
A kurdaitcha, or kurdaitcha man, also spelt gadaidja, cadiche, kadaitcha, karadji, or kaditcha, is a type of shaman amongst the Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group in Central Australia. The name featherfoot is used to denote the same figure by other Aboriginal peoples.
The kurdaitcha may be brought in to punish a guilty party by death. The word may also relate to the ritual in which the death is willed by the kurdaitcha man, known also as bone-pointing. The word may also be used by Europeans to refer to the shoes worn by the kurdaitcha, which are woven of feathers and human hair and treated with blood.
