DICTIONARY ENTRY002 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE
Spirit
Also indexed as spirit person, spirit-person, spirits.
PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES89821.06% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONNew South Wales135 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1842–2022accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE505.6% geographically mapped
Public sources use spirit-person wording for human-like presences, named beings, ancestral figures, and other culturally specific persons. Their appearance and role vary substantially between sources, and many records describe belief, ceremony, or retelling rather than an eyewitness encounter. The accepted archive contains 898 records from 1842–2022. The largest coded regional group is New South Wales (135), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (738). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.
OCCURRENCE TIMELINE
records by decade1840sPEAK 2142020s
REGIONAL FIELD
577 region-coded records64.3%of this figure's records include a coded region
- 01New South Wales13523.4%
- 02Victoria12621.8%
- 03Northern Territory7813.5%
- 04Western Australia7613.2%
- 05South Australia6611.4%
- 06Queensland529.0%
- 07Tasmania427.3%
- 08Australian Capital Territory20.3%
SOURCE CONCENTRATION
7 organisations82.2%held by the leading source
- 01Internet Archive738
- 02Project Gutenberg90
- 03Project Gutenberg Australia46
- 04Internet Sacred Text Archive14
- 05Wikisource8
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 898- 01spirits in Fremantle Arts Centre haunted claims2022 / Western Australia
- 02spirits in Sylvania Station store room spirits2013 / Western Australia
- 03spirit in Canberra history and legends1927 / Australian Capital Territory
- 04spirit in Canberra history and legends1927 / Australian Capital Territory
- 05spirits in Australian Legends1925
- 06spirits in Australian Legends1925