Ngadju
Americannoun
plural
Ngadjus,plural
Ngadju-
a member of any of several Dayak tribes of southern Borneo.
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the Austronesian language of the Ngadju.
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Among the Oloh Ngadju of Borneo, when a sick man is supposed to be suffering from the assaults of a ghost, puppets of dough or rice-meal are made and thrown under the house as substitutes for the patient, who thus rids himself of the ghost.
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