The local example is found close to Alice Springs, where there are deposited a large number of churinga carried by the witchetty grub men and women.
Now, in the witchetty grub totem this sacred painting tallies with the lines incised, under concentric circles, on the covering of a stone kist at Tillicoutry.
The Emu men have their own ceremonies, equally elaborate and quite as well adapted to promote the multiplication of emus as those of the witchetty-grub men to produce an abundance of witchetty grubs.
Spencer and Gillen, of the ceremonies performed by the men whose totem is the "witchetty grub," a creature much prized as an article of diet by the natives.
One of these is in connection with the witchetty grub, the other with the kangaroo.
Thus the Intichiuma of the Witchetty grub among the Arunta includes more than the rites performed upon the sacred rocks, of which we have already spoken.
Here, for example, is how the Witchetty grub clan, at Alice Springs, proceeds at its Intichiuma.
This block represents the witchetty grub as an adult.
This done, they all descend a little lower, to the foot of a cliff also celebrated in the myths of the Alcheringa, at the base of which is another stone, also representing the witchetty grub.
C, one of the sisters, marries D, a Witchetty Grub, her children are Kangaroos.
Australians make a great totem of the Witchetty Grub (as Spencer and Gillen report), but the village of Oakditch is not proud of its potato grub, the natives themselves being styled 'tater grubs.
In another ceremony of the witchetty grub totem, which followed immediately the one I have just described, the actor had two shields beside him.
Thus one band would consist of frog people only, another of witchetty grub people only, another of Hakea flower people only, and so on.
In acting thus he was supposed to represent a celebrated ancestor of the witchetty grub totem.
The men of the witchetty grub totem enter the structure and sing songs about the production and growth of the witchetty grub.
When the Australian aborigines are performing ceremonies for the increase of witchetty grubs, a long narrow structure of boughs is made which represents the chrysalis of the grub.
Then one after another they shuffle out of the chrysalis, and glide slowly along for a distance of some yards, imitating the emergence and movements of the witchetty grubs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "witchetty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
