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
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% threshold19OF 43 RECORDSEach filled point is one accepted public record.
OCCURRENCE TIMELINE
records by decade1840sPEAK 81900s
ARCHIVE COMPOSITION
source constellation / baseline bubblesSOURCE CONSTELLATION
- Internet Archive1474%
- Internet Sacred Text Archive526%
NARRATIVE BUBBLE BASELINE
- Spirit Person Narratives1789%
- Retellings and Adaptations211%
RECORD COMPLETENESS
19 record sample5coded decades
3source organisations
3coded regions
DATED19 / 19
REGION CODED16 / 19
MAPPED1 / 19
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 19- 01evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
- 02evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
- 03evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
- 04evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
- 05evil spirit in Customs and Traditions of the Aboriginal Natives of North Western Australia1901 / Western Australia
- 06evil spirit in Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales1892 / New South Wales