manuscript notes made by W.G. Archer between 1946 & 1948, and miscellaneous papers and letters |
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Sangtam analysis of dreams |
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notes |
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Tsungrangre |
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Hopongki |
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Sangtam |
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Dreams. |
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Tiger - you will meet an enemy |
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you will fall ill |
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If you kill the tiger - you will kill the enemy |
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Elephant - good crops/many weeds/sickness in family |
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Log drum - very bad crops |
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Gate - all risks will be fulfilled |
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Mithan - is regarded as Tsungrangre |
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ill will betide |
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River - if clear water, good crop |
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if dirty, many weeds and illness |
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Pigs - wild boars will destroy the crop |
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Fire - fair weather, bright sun |
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Moon - good luck in the family but during his lifetime only |
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Rice beer - much rain |
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Dancing - a man will die |
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Intercourse with a woman - game will be got when hunting |
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Catching a girl's breasts - wealth |
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Rising sun - a great son |
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Dao, dao box, boar's tusks, spear - will get a son |
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Tobacco pipe - will get a daughter |
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Snake - you will commit a 'sin' |
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Flood - you will become poor |
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Passing excrement - lose wealth |
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A stranger's excrement in one's own clan - riches |
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Rain - misfortune |
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Making a new road or clearing one - prosperity/death |
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Crossing a river - overcoming a difficulty |
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A man carrying a load and crossing a river - he will die within a year |
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A pumpkin (bottle gourd) - you will get goitre |
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A broken pot - you will get a baby |
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A goitre - you will become rich |
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Pregnant woman - good harvest |
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A dead man - success in hunting (a male animal) |
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A dead woman - " " " (a female animal) |
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Holding an umbrella - you will come under a big man's protection |
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Climbing a tree and sitting on a bough - you will become the head of a village |
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Sitting on a chair - you will rule a village |
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Sitting in a car - prosperity |
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Hornbill - a man will die |
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An apotia house - you will be v. rich |
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A grave - riches |
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A warriors' spear - much rain |
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If you are cut with a dao - good weather/you will get a dao wound |
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If you drink rice beer - a man will die |
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A nostipati (pear) - much rice |
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If you dream of flying like a bird - you will have no food |
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Climbing a steep hill - no food |
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Striking someone - he will be ill |
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Felling a tree - a man will die |
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Lamp at night - wealth |
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Buffalo - many weeds |
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Your son's death - your pigs and mithan will die |
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A roof falls - a man will die (Hopongki had this dream and his father died) |
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Bitten by a dog - a tiger will attack you |
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Bundle of thatch - an enemy will have you fined |
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The noise of pounding rice - your enemy will die |
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Hearing a log drum being beaten - you will get news of danger |
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A warrior returning with a head - you will get rich |
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