| 释义 |
boyla|ˈbɔɪlə|
[Native name.]
An aboriginal Australian sorcerer.
1865W. Howitt Discov. Australia I. 386 A superstitious notion that by eating them [sc. mussels] he should subject himself to the absolute power of boylas, or evil sorcerers. 1966W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. vi. 129 Several of these words, notably..boyla and koradji, ‘an aboriginal medicine-man or witchdoctor’, are used only in their original and specific senses. |