tohunga
Britishnoun
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The light was little better than darkness; and the part of the room in which the tohunga sat was now in perfect darkness.
From Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by 'A Pakeha Maori'
At night the tohunga invoked the familiar spirit, he became inspired, and in a sort of hollow whistle came the words of fate:—"He will return, but yet not return."
From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by A Pakeha Maori
Off they set to the tohunga; I happened to be at his place at the time, and saw and heard all I am about to recount.
From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by A Pakeha Maori
The light was little better than darkness, and the part of the room in which the tohunga sat was now in perfect darkness.
From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by A Pakeha Maori
The voice all through, it is to be remembered, was not the voice of the tohunga, but a strange melancholy sound, like the sound of a wind blowing into a hollow vessel.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
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