Spirit — AusFigures supernatural humanoid dictionary

ENTRY 002 / PUBLIC

Spirit

898
SPAN
1842–2022
MAPPED
50
SOURCES
7
AUSFIGURESSUPERNATURAL HUMANOID DICTIONARY
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
ARCHIVE SUMMARY

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.

CORPUS PRESENCE

record share
21.06%898 / 4,265
Archive frequency, not a prevalence estimate.

OCCURRENCE TIMELINE

records by decade
1840sPEAK 2142020s

REGIONAL FIELD

577 region-coded records

64.3%of this figure's records include a coded region

  1. 01New South Wales13523.4%
  2. 02Victoria12621.8%
  3. 03Northern Territory7813.5%
  4. 04Western Australia7613.2%
  5. 05South Australia6611.4%
  6. 06Queensland529.0%
  7. 07Tasmania427.3%
  8. 08Australian Capital Territory20.3%
One cell equals 1% of the region-coded subset; exact record counts remain listed at right.

SOURCE CONCENTRATION

7 organisations
82.2%held by the leading source
  1. 01
    Internet Archive
    738
  2. 02
    Project Gutenberg
    90
  3. 03
    Project Gutenberg Australia
    46
  4. 04
    Internet Sacred Text Archive
    14
  5. 05
    Wikisource
    8

SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS

6 OF 898
  1. 01spirits in Fremantle Arts Centre haunted claims2022 / Western Australia
  2. 02spirits in Sylvania Station store room spirits2013 / Western Australia
  3. 03spirit in Canberra history and legends1927 / Australian Capital Territory
  4. 04spirit in Canberra history and legends1927 / Australian Capital Territory
  5. 05spirits in Australian Legends1925
  6. 06spirits in Australian Legends1925

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