Spirits
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Spirits” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 275
- Public sources
- 6
- States / territories
- 7
- Dated span
- 1842–2022
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Representative records — first 60
- spirits in Fremantle Arts Centre haunted claims#4136ABC News reported in 2022 that the imposing hallways and dark staircases of the Fremantle Arts Centre building had long sparked public curiosity, including claims it is haunted and stories of paranormal experiences. The…
- spirits in Sylvania Station store room spirits#4140ABC Rural reported that Western Australia's remote pastoral stations can be spooky places. Darlene, the cook at Sylvania Station in WA's Pilbara region, said she often hears music around the homestead and described two…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3768to the Murray, as Central Queensland. This is perhaps the prettiest, and was obtained from a young native who lived mostly ina compound at Wahgunyah. He was camped with two gins on a reserve near Burryjaa Station, in N.…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3767hes the two netfuls of grubs walked up and up until they reached the sky. The women down below probed the holes in the logs in vain, for there were no grubs to be got. Bathing in the seas of the moon, Yunguipan and the…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3766from that camp followed. In his hurry and his excitement Yunguipan rushed without thinking of possible danger, to the sacred place. He reached it and found that he and the sisters were surrounded by others of the maiden…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3765le who believed that they were travelling to a big initiation ceremony were surprised to see a large number of men suddenly appear amongst them with all their weapons, and marking one another with the red ochre of war a…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3764led and clattered and fell one against the other. The Milky Way-the "pukkan" or track up which departed spirits often reached the world to which they went-also billowed and it split, and in some places is never joined t…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3763ess, with just a shred of the red of the burning west left, and with the stars showing brightly, and a rising moon putting an inquisitive edge over the haze of the east, the sky heaved and billowed arid tumbled and tott…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3762more waratah stems could be got before he essayed the dangerous task of lying across the fires. So they went back. Neither of them, nor the two together, could reach them. Then Camoola thought of the magic clay and he l…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3731sh." They barred the way of the party. Try as they would, no passage through the ranks of the "little men" could be made. So then they turned and followed the flow of the river, and that way no opposition was offered. T…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3730d that when the next great man died--the chief or the doctor or the rainmaker or the clergyman-his best stone axe be buried with him. Then a sorcerer came forward and proclaimed that he would undertake to go to the rive…
- spirits in Australian Legends#1906y clear about the picture just described. They said that not only had some people spoken to returned men who had waded through the lake and been on the island and climbed the mountain and nearly reached the river, but t…
- spirits in Australian Legends#1905felt strong enough to get up. Close by were the fallen rocks. There was still no way in or out. So the first Gymea or Gigantic Lily came into being, and not long ago men dug under the boulders and found a great heap of…
- spirits in Australian Legends#1901by the rains that fell and the winds that blew. And the way down to the pool was always difficult. None but the priest ever descended there, and when he did he carried with him the flint rod that served as the bell in t…
- spirits in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2397by sheets of galvanised iron, supported on trestles, waits, manuscript in hand, still in a rather unsettled state of mind, the Reverend Spicer. The place is dimly lit by flaring candles and slush lamps, and is crowded b…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3872ot, the women may eat. The old men also can make it fit for younger men to eat at this place by breaking the fish's neck. Mischievous spirits, belonging to another tribe, some- times place Nuppadaitba bones that they ha…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3849e, 239 and mourning ceremonies, Wadu- man tribe, 249 Mungarai tribe, 251 Mara tribe, 255 Burial of child, Larakia tribe, 251 Burning grass stained with men- strual blood, 327 hut in which girl has sat during menstrual p…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3848round in which fire is made during Tjilaiyu ceremony. Kakadu Tribe, name of a special snake. Kakadu Tribe, mother's brother. Mungarai Tribe, spirit children. Waduman Tribe, name of a tribe. word for Totem. Mudburra Trib…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3847ngkri Ningbrnu or Ying6rna , Ninibura-bSra . . . Noaianji . Nobbila . Nongura . No6rnb£rri N6rkun . Normo, see Ng Norweilfemil Noudbukkra Nub6. go . . Nukaitka NuUkbSrri sugar-bag or honey-comb. Yungman Tribe, hole in g…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3844ich is covered all over with hair, called ngoinbu, and has also two masses called krabir, one on either side of its head. This particular spirit is friendly to the natives and flies about watching them. If it sees a nat…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3843ark nights. It lives amongst the bamboo trees, hanging on to special ropes made out of banyan-bark string, called Mokino- F F 2 436 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. borbu. It has flaps projecting from its body,…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3842h the natives always see on the hill tops at night time ' when the Auuenau is prowling about. The straight lines above and below the hands and behind and under the feet indicate maggots. The spirits are supposed to wand…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3841bones that the spirit has taken from dead men and fastened on itself From the pelvis there is a downward projection, supposed to represent the mulowa, or lightning which the natives always see on the hill tops at night…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3840hair, called ifimp. There is a great bunch of hair projecting from the back of the head, and from the neck a long, stiff, curved spine hangs down which can be erected and , waggled about, so that the natives can hear it…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3837buried. They put their hands on the dead man, talk to him, and try to make F F 434 NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AUSTRALIA chap. him get up, but cannot do so. Then they make cor- robborees and when they go away, other spiri…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3836club and in his left a bunch of feathers called niaru. These Ingwalin are supposed to visit the tree grave, or wurkara, in which a dead native is buried. They put their hands on the dead man, talk to him, and try to mak…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3830d men may eat it. It must also be struck with a short throwing stick, called mumbarnbo, while it is still on the spear point. If these conditions are complied with, and unless there be a good supply of fish probably the…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3829lmurus ai other tribes come into their (that is, the Kakadu) country in order to work evil magic. This can only be frustrated by means of the careful watch that the Yalmuru of each Kakadu native is supposed to keep over…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3827e fish, the Yalmuru goes into the water and drives them into the man's chipoiyu or fishing net, if it be mormo or " sugar-bag," he guides him to the tree in which the bees have made their hive. In either case, as soon a…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3826moinja lata lungin, Ngaidjan anoadja tjumba angebir, which means. You go away to another country, where you stop leave Ngaidjan behind. She did so, and the natives say that, when leaving them behind. viii BELIEFS IN REG…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3825th down when performing the sacred ceremonies during which they are supposed to simulate the old ancestors. When they thus shake themselves, little bits of down tumble off just as the spirits used, originally, to emanat…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3824of the body is a very characteristic feature in the totemic ceremonies of many tribes. It was very much in evidence amongst the Warramunga, who decorate themselves profusely with down when performing the sacred ceremoni…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3823Mr. Gillen, was supposed to be the reincarnation of one of them named Urangara. The Arunta believe that when any individual dies his spirit part goes back, to his old camping place in the Alcheringa, inhabiting some spe…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3822mbers of spirit children who were deposited in certain places and it is these who now enter women and are born in the form of human beings, as well, of course, as the spirits of the great leaders themselves. My late col…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3821n great men and women, leaders of the various groups in the far past times, called Alcheringa, who had definite names. They carried VIII BELIEFS IN REGARD TO ORIGIN OF CHILDREN 265 with them numbers of spirit children w…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3820st and Melville Islands. The traditions in regard to their ancestors in all these tribes are very explicit. Amongst the Arunta, for example, there were certain great men and women, leaders of the various groups in the f…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3819ing the mother. — Account given by Ungara, a Kakadu native. — The old Yalmuru disappears and the Iwaiyu becomes the new Yalmuru. One of the most striking features of the native tribes in Central and Northern Australia,…
- spirits in Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia#3803ding to one side beating time with sticks. The per- formers were supposed to be young emus wandering about, and the man who lifted them up represented their mother. After the emu ceremony was over two men came in from t…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 1#3184A man who was being pursued by others would not be touched so long as he remained at this spot. If a native is chasing a wallaby or a kangaroo it is perfectly safe so long as it is quite close to one of these Ertnatulun…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3176Imirinja, name given to avengers, 298 India-rubber tree, 457 Indigofera, 163 Initiation ceremony, Urabunna tribe, 24 Irritja, a hawk, tradition of in Ura- bunna tribe, 24 Irruntarinia, spirits, making medicine- men, 335…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3152tient may be either a human being or one of the spirits. Only a medicine man who is himself very strong in magic has the slightest chance of treating successfully a patient suffering from the evil magic of a spirit. The…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3147-7, 484-5 Spears, of Arunta tribe, 194 ; of Anula tribe, 485 Spider, webs in scrub, 69 ; stridulating noise made by, 175 Spinif ex paradoxus, 78 Spirit children, spots inhabited by, Warramunga tribe, 410 Spirit, evil, s…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3146lunqua ceremonies, 396 et seq. Soakage, obtaining water from, 312 Sonder, Mt., 138, 151-4 Songs, corrobboree, 239-40 Son-in-law, general avoidance of mother-in-law by, 204 Spear-heads, stone, 378 Spear-throwers, 236-7,…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3145od by younger, 343 Olga, Mt., 104, 114, 121 et seq. Oodnadatta, 2, 9, 13, 19, 29, Tftetseq.^ 172, 184, 229 Ooraminna Range, 90, 136, 222, 225 Opossum, native method of catching, Organisation, of Urabunna tribe, 19 ; Aru…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3144class in the Urabunna tribe, 19 Kirra-urkna, girdle made from hair of dead man, 293 Knives, flaked stone, 373 et seq. ; Warramunga men making, 447 ; women's stone, 376 Knout, an article of magic in the Arunta tribe, 351…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3143special Churinga, 257 Ilkinia, name for totemic design, Arunta tribe, 287 Ilkunta, flaked sticks worn by members of avenging party, 293 Ilpirra tribe, 324 ; medicine men, 334 Imirinja, name given to avengers, 298 India-…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3142na vespcrtilio, the bean-tree, 3IO, 314 1 ia, 45, 62 Etiquette amongst natives, 452 vp/us eudesmoideSf 105 n Eucalyptus microtlieca, the swamp gum, 44, 76, S2 Eucalyfttus plalypoda, 449 Eucalyptus rostrata, the river gu…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#314180 ; fighting, 37 ; introduced into Australia, 30 ; loading and riding, 33-6 Campanotus, 180 Camp life amongst the Arunta, 246 ; Warramunga, 367 Camps, arrangements of natives in, 262 ; men's private, Arunta tribe, 293…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3140spirits called Mundadji and Munkaninji, who make medicine men, were walking about. Before he knew what was happening, old Mundadji caught him by the neck and killed him. Then he cut him open, right down the middle, took…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3139w to a considerable length and is then made into plaits which are wound round the crown so as to produce the appearance of a close-fitting cap or helmet (Figs. 345, 346). This old man told us how he had graduated in Q 2…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3134A PLACE CALLED PARAPAKINI (p. 406). Fig. 290. GROUND-DRAWING associated with THE WOLLUNQUA TOTEMIC CEREMONY OF A PLACE CALLED PARAPAKINI (p. 406). Fig. 291. STONE CHURINGA REPRESENTING ONE "I Mil. Y.Wls CARRIED BY THE M…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3130nt Creek by the ancestor of the black-snake totem, carrying their yams with them. These were Churinga, and they deposited them (Fig. 291) along with the spirits associated with them, at various places as they travelled…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3129white quartzite hills indicated a large number of white-ant eggs, thrown down here by some women called Munga-Munga who belonged to the yam totem. They were sent away to the east from a place close to Tennant Creek by t…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3125; but, in the Warramunga, the one great ancestor was provided with a large number of small spirits which he carried about with him and deposited when he came to suitable places. Some striking natural feature, easily see…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3117awe- inspiring about the Churinga, but to the savage youth, who has been taught to believe implicitly in what the old men tell him, it is quite a different matter ; and, in fear and trembling, he takes them in his hands…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3101ongst the Orunchas there are some who are not altogether malevolent, but are supposed to be especially concerned with the making of medicine men. In the Kaitish, Arunta, Unmatjera, and Ilpirra tribes, if a man feels tha…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3100d to indicate the mourning of the relatives of the man whom they were intending to kill (Fig. 146). When it was over they all rose to their feet, each man took his spear, spear-thrower, shield and boomerang and, led on…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3096over. As usual, when it was done, its meaning was explained to the younger men, none of whom had seen it before. After doing so they were hardly likely to forget that Imanda, a spot on the bank of the Hugh River where t…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 2#3095USTRALIA chap. Thus, for example, one ceremony was called Quabara Irriakura of Umbanjun — that is, a ceremony of the Irriakura (an edible bulb) totem of a place called Umbanjun; another was a ceremony of the Udniringita…
- spirits in Across Australia, volume 1#3065ines of travel of their ancestors and exactly ' In Native Tribes of Central Australia we have indicated by means of maps the lines of travel which tradition says that certain of these ancestral groups followed during th…
This collection contains 275 search-ready records. The complete record set remains discoverable through the paginated public record index.