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EveryJaadu

Magic in Oceania

Mana and tapu, tohunga and kahuna, the Dreaming and its restricted knowledge, and sorcery beliefs across Melanesia. 52 entries on EveryJaadu so far.

Places of magic

Rites of the region

Karakia and lifting tapu Hooponopono Aboriginal smoking ceremony Pacific kava ceremony Sorcery accusation in Papua New Guinea

Countries

🇦🇺 Australia 60 🇫🇯 Fiji 9 🇰🇮 Kiribati 2 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands 1 🇫🇲 Micronesia 1 🇳🇷 Nauru 1 🇳🇿 New Zealand 25 🇵🇼 Palau 2 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea 4 🇼🇸 Samoa 7 🇸🇧 Solomon Islands 2 🇹🇴 Tonga 6 🇹🇻 Tuvalu 🇻🇺 Vanuatu 6

KindTradition Rite Charm Oracle Substance Being Figure Text Illusion Belief

PurposeProtection Healing Seeing and foretelling Luck and prosperity Love and attraction Cursing and harm Cleansing and purification Speaking with spirits and the dead Change and initiation Binding and oaths Power and authority Wonder and entertainment

WhoShamans Folk healers Priests and ritual specialists Witches, sorcerers and cunning folk Diviners and readers Mediums and the possessed Ceremonial magicians and alchemists Households and ordinary people Stage magicians Scholars and sceptics

BeliefHindu and Tantric Buddhist Jain Muslim and Sufi Jewish Christian Sikh Zoroastrian Shinto and Taoist Indigenous and shamanic African and Afro-diasporic Pagan and Neopagan Esoteric and occult Folk and village custom Secular and stage Other traditions

OccasionWeddings and betrothal Festivals Birth and childhood Death and remembrance Harvest, farming and weather New year Initiation and coming of age Illness and misfortune Journeys and voyages Everyday use

StandingLiving Revived Fading Historical Legendary Performed

OrderBest known A to Z Newest Living first

🇦🇺 AustraliaRainbow Serpent A creator spirit of water and land in Aboriginal Australian mythologyBeing · Healing · Cursing and harm Living 🇳🇿 New ZealandTohunga Suppression Act 1907 A New Zealand law banning traditional Māori healers and faith practitionersText · Cursing and harm · Protection Historical

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Rainbow Serpent: unknown (as drawn by an Aboriginal), Public domain, source

The weekly digest

Every Monday: seven entries you may not know, what is on the calendar this week, and one rite drawn step by step.