kurdaitcha

noun4

1. •
   An aboriginal evil spirit; a sorcerer.
2. •
   A man chosen to go on such an expedition.

   • ‘[…]One day when he was going to a creek to catch fish he saw a Kurdaitcha man - one who was going out alone to kill an enemy, and he had shoes of a very strange kind.’ — 1987
3. •
   The boots worn by someone on such a mission, typically made from emu feathers.

   • Now Detective–Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte has solved his last case and laid away his kurdaitcha boots for ever. — 1964
4. •
   An expedition taken to heal or avenge someone afflicted by evil sorcery.

   • The “kurdaitcha” is a party consisting of a medicine-man and three others, sent by the elders of a local group to avenge a magically-caused death, the offender having been beforehand identified. — 1968