Evil Spirit — AusFigures supernatural humanoid dictionary

ENTRY 015 / PUBLIC

Evil Spirit

19
SPAN
1842–1901
MAPPED
1
SOURCES
3
AUSFIGURESSUPERNATURAL HUMANOID DICTIONARY
DICTIONARY ENTRY015 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE

Evil Spirit

Primary indexed name: evil spirit.

PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES190.45% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONWestern Australia8 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1842–1901accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE15.3% geographically mapped
ARCHIVE SUMMARY

Evil Spirit appears mainly in spirit-person narratives describing a human-like, named, ancestral, or otherwise culturally specific person whose role and appearance depend on the source tradition. The accepted archive contains 19 records from 1842–1901. The largest coded regional group is Western Australia (8), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (14). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.

ARCHIVE SIGNAL

one dot per record / 1% threshold
19OF 43 RECORDSEach filled point is one accepted public record.
44.2%of the 1% archive threshold1% = 43 records
Scale describes archive representation, not real-world prevalence.

OCCURRENCE TIMELINE

records by decade
1840sPEAK 81900s

ARCHIVE COMPOSITION

source constellation / baseline bubbles

SOURCE CONSTELLATION

145
  1. Internet Archive1474%
  2. Internet Sacred Text Archive526%

NARRATIVE BUBBLE BASELINE

011789%02211%
  1. Spirit Person Narratives1789%
  2. Retellings and Adaptations211%
Every constellation point is a record; bubble area encodes exact narrative share within this archive sample.

RECORD COMPLETENESS

19 record sample
5coded decades
3source organisations
3coded regions
DATED19 / 19
REGION CODED16 / 19
MAPPED1 / 19
Metadata completeness, not supernatural prevalence or evidential strength.

SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS

6 OF 19
  1. 01evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
  2. 02evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
  3. 03evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
  4. 04evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
  5. 05evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
  6. 06evil spirit in Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales1892 / New South Wales

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