DICTIONARY ENTRY008 / PUBLIC
SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE
Supernatural
Primary indexed name: supernatural.
PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES811.90% OF PUBLIC CORPUS
LEADING REGIONVictoria25 coded records
DOCUMENTED SPAN1854–2021accepted dated records
MAPPED EVIDENCE56.2% geographically mapped
“Supernatural” functions here as a recurring printed descriptor rather than one stable named figure. The matched records most often sit within the “Spirit-Person Narratives” archive category; ordinary, literary, and supernatural uses may coexist, so the entry should not be read as a single sighting tradition. The accepted archive contains 81 records from 1854–2021. The largest coded regional group is Victoria (25), and the largest source group is Internet Archive (75). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.
OCCURRENCE TIMELINE
records by decade1850sPEAK 252020s
REGIONAL FIELD
56 region-coded records69.1%of this figure's records include a coded region
- 01Victoria2544.6%
- 02Queensland1425.0%
- 03South Australia814.3%
- 04New South Wales712.5%
- 05Western Australia23.6%
SOURCE CONCENTRATION
5 organisations92.6%held by the leading source
- 01Internet Archive75
- 02Project Gutenberg Australia4
- 03Project Gutenberg1
- 04State Library Victoria1
SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS
6 OF 81- 01supernatural in Spooky stories from the Library2021 / Victoria
- 02supernatural in Australian Legends1925
- 03supernatural in Australian Legends1925
- 04supernatural in Australian Legends1925 / New South Wales
- 05supernatural in Australian Legends1925 / New South Wales
- 06supernatural in Australian Legends1925 / New South Wales