Supernatural
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Supernatural” 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
- 81
- Public sources
- 5
- States / territories
- 5
- Dated span
- 1854–2021
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- supernatural in Spooky stories from the Library#2702were of a female form. To this day I have not been able to find out who she was. Hellena Lozanovski, Senior Library Technician — ‘When I started at SLV in 1999 I worked in the Arts Library, now known as the Ian Potter Q…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#3770, and how to put it out! Now the blacks had for ages used the stem of the waratah to enwrap any hot thing they wished to handle. They said that it entirely prevented burns. In the earliest days of white occupancy of Aus…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#3769izon down on the New South Wales Coast, somewhere in the mists of my past. But in Allambee's days there were different things everywhere. Whether of the animal world or the plant world or of the spirit world the aborigi…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#1911m beyond the edge of the sea, was just the same as the many white mornings that brought me out of my tent to look at the same sun steadily rising from beyond the horizon down on the New South Wales Coast, somewhere in t…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#1910ina compound at Wahgunyah. He was camped with two gins on a reserve near Burryjaa Station, in N.S.W., and it was with considerable surprise that the writer found him so ready to talk. Like all aborigines who tell things…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#1909sarcasm, and it was hoped that this piece of portrayed scorn would bring some evil to his rival. He would much have preferred to go on with the competition until one or the other had won. He was becoming anxious to secu…
- supernatural in In Bad Company#2571ich was to furnish our entertainment for the morrow, should languish in a dungeon. We arose and in a body marched to the watch-house, where any amount of bail was proffered to the astonished constable. The cell-door bei…
- supernatural in Joe Wilson and His Mates#2160lour for Lahey's Creek way. The roads were good, the weather grand-no chance of it raining, and I had a spare tarpaulin if it did — I would only camp out one night ; so I decided to take Jim home with me. Jim was turnin…
- supernatural in Eaglehawk and Crow#1581and Pundyil, of Victoria, refer to the same supernatural being ? Baiame, indeed, may be a local * " Queensland, Australia,"' p. 379. us i:a(;li:hawk and crow pc|iiivaleut of Banna, another Sumatrau deity. The blackfello…
- supernatural in Eaglehawk and Crow#1580estion may be reasonably asked is this Buddai not as likely to refer to Daibaitah of the north- west as to Budha ? In New Guinea, according to Marsden, the same deity is known as ' Wat,' the first and third syllables of…
- supernatural in Eaglehawk and Crow#1579ll dwell with us." Had this overture not miscarried, two families might have amalgamated and become "one people'' as was proposed, embracing two intermarrying but exoganious classes. In this instance the cross-marriages…
- supernatural in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2332iven home, and knew that the rescue parties were working as hard as men may work, but whether theirs would be a job of hours or days he could not tell, and already he fancied he detected some taint of vitiation in the a…
- supernatural in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2315s, but he clung to his faith in Sim's ghost, and awaited developments. These people were flying in the face of the supernatural; Houten was there to teach them what they might expect--no one would heed him. "Ease her!"…
- supernatural in Below And On Top and Other Stories#2314whole council of doctors, consequently the best speed was a slow trot; but the crowd had a diversion in Houten, who continued in an unconscious condition, and whose head showed several bad wounds. Evidently the stranger…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3223111. tiin-dé : Yam-stick, 158. Tanning: With Blood-wood Gum, 152, td-poon: Spear, 253. ti-rdil-kd: Bull-frog, 121. td-roo-roo : Timber (? Gidyea), 239. Ta-ta ! Good-Bye ! Notes of Exclamation, 41. i%-di-boo: The 5-mile…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3222-ri: Death- powder, 2 273. moy-ér-jo : Green-room, 199. Much, Many, 35-7, Muckunda Creek, 45, 236. Mud: Dressing for Wounds, 284, 300; Sign of Mourning, 289, 291; Mud-pills, 288. Muddying of W ater for ( (atelier Fish,…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3221ffected, he gets quite and incurably blind, and can see no more women to assault. In the Cloncurry District, when the Mitakoodi want to “ blind” a man, they do it by “ singing”’ only, casting over him a sort of spell, a…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3220ck to camp as fast as she can go and tell one of thedoctors. The latter, froma careful cross- examination as to the nature of the bite, the variety of the snake, and the condition of the patient, will soon gather all th…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3219. 264), the identical ‘“ bone ” removed (sect. 263) from the person in whom Mulkari or Kanmare originally placed it. This procedure may be effected on the individual when he is perhaps but a child, and as the years roll…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3218flints, bones, or gee-gaws in his “ inside” (sect. 261). This ing is the most ordinary method. JJulkari is the supernatural power who makes everything which the Boulia District aboriginals cannot otherwise account for :…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3217ave camp for three or four days, and subsist only on bushes, &¢.—that is, practically starve himself: he gets more or less “ cranky” and Wher when in that condition sees Mul-ka-ri, who is pleased to make him a doctor by…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3216moor-ro = large variety of throwing- stick toy. moo-too-roo = vertical ‘ flash” cuts on the shoulders. m6-rool-k& = mosquito (cf. moki). mor-ro = nulla-nulla. moy-6r- jo = old-woman. miil-jé-ri = flank, side, of the bod…
- supernatural in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#3215ing it up. ka-la-ri = a woman’s mother-in-law, a woman’s daughter-in-law. ka-la-wd-ri = paddymelon. ké-16 = native-flax plant. ka-lér-i = message-stick. ka-l0-rdéing-6-rd = a larger kind of edible grub found in trees. k…
- supernatural in At Midnight and Other Stories#2250said, holding her tightly with one hand and the butt of his revolver with the other. But they heard nothing, except their hearts beating. So they started on their voyage to the west wing. Their supper had done them so m…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of New South Wales#1835ir uhuJcweta^ including their ' karosses,' bandages, <&c., is collected inside the hut, and the whole is burned. The boys, having been smeared with fat and red clay, are presented with new * karosses.* They then proceed…
- supernatural in A Colonial Tramp#2238a party and had to pass through this particular street. There, just as I had dreamt it, I looked across to see this woman dragging along the drunken man (probably her husband) and to be received with the evil glance. An…
- supernatural in A Colonial Tramp#2237s own taste, settling the question by taking the woman himself ; so that the youths have to go and ' look out ' once more for something not so tempting, while the old warrior takes to himself the finest young women he c…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina#1846fellows with. They, however, never put this pretended power in practice on members of their own tribes, at least they pretend never to do so ; upon the Bukeens f on the other hand, they are continually trying the potenc…
- supernatural in Among cannibals#1808laid on the wound, which is sucked as soon as the skin becomes cold. The opossum is warmed a second time, and the process is repeated until the patient is out of danger. The operation usually lasts about forty- five min…
- supernatural in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life#2019ditorial comment, and remarks upon "the almost miraculous discovery four months after the murder had been committed." The words " almost miraculous " evidently referring only to the discovery after such a lapse of time.…
- supernatural in Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life#2018urder as one of the inscrutible dispensations of Providence." In " Tegg's Monthly Annual" for March, 1836, the story is told with much imaginative detail, and evidently for the purpose of furnishing an interesting story…
- supernatural in The Australian Race, volume 2#1994males have their skins ornamented with scars. . When the period of adolescence is past, a front tooth is knocked out of the upper jaw of the males and the lower jaw of the females. Circumcision and other rites of the so…
- supernatural in The Australian Race, volume 1#1899r up and burn every patticle of their hair when cut, to prevent its falling into the hands of a sorcerer, who would infallibly cause their death by means of it. Livingstone, in his account of the Zambesi expedition, p.…
- supernatural in The Australian Race, volume 1#1894o burn or bury it, lest, falling into the hands of one who has an evil eye, or is a witch, it should be used as a charm to afflict him with headache." Finally, F. Burton (see Transactions of Ethnological Society , new s…
- supernatural in Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia#1674much pain. Another Boylyagadak can, however, disenchant the person thus afflicted. When this is done the Boylya is drawn out from the patient in the form of pieces of quartz, which are kept as great curiosities. The abo…
- supernatural in Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia#1661lowing. Waubbaniranwin, part. — Joking ; jesting. Waubbow, i'. — Pres. part., Waubbowin ; past tense, Waubbow, to play to tease. 75 Waudarak, s. — The sow-thistle. This was very generally used as a vegetable by the earl…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#3253accosted, each gives its name as that of a deceased member of the tribe. Any person may look at them, but no one except the doctor can speak to them, and nobody dares to run away. When the white men came to Victoria, th…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#3251the person who holds possession of the other lock of hair is asked to undo the exchange by returning it. If this were not done, the loser of the lock would die. So strong is this belief, that people in such circumstance…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#3250icked up one, and flew away with it. A hawk called Tarrakukk took the firestick from the wren, and set the whole country on fire. From that time there have always been fires from which lights could be obtained. There is…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#3249some of the aborigines could be prevailed upon to take hold of spears, arrows, and clubs from the Society Islands. When the spear or weapon of an enemy has killed a friend, it is always burnt by the relatives of the dec…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#3248be seen near the habitations of the aborigines, or in the neighbourhood of their camps; and although their sanitary laws are apparently attributable to superstition and prejudice, the principles of these laws must have…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#1652or Persons: naming of children, changing names, the effect of death on names, lists of names a CHAPTER XIV.—Surerstirions AND DisEasEs: supernatural beings, celestial, infernal and terrestrial, ghosts, wraiths, shades,…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#1642pright before the fire, as a signal of retirement for the night. At her death the pole was carried off by the spirits, and no one has seen it since. ; In order to support her pretensions to supernatural power, she would…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#1641ering her to the meeting, he hid the pole at a short distance from the camp, while singing and amusements were going on, as it was too sacred to be exposed to common inspection. At bedtime he brought it into the circle…
- supernatural in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia#1640the Kolor tribe there was a sorceress well known in the Western district under the name of White Lady, who was the widow of the chief, and whose supernatural influence was much dreaded by all. Asan emblem of her power,…
- supernatural in The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines#3586gi for having been a party to enticing away our poor black boy, thereby depri\dng D of his native tutor. We learned afterwards that he appeared exceedingly surprised on his master's reading the letter and reprimanding h…
- supernatural in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1614ficulties. There are but few facts upon which an opinion may be formed. In the Western Port tribes the word Bunjil was Eaglehawk ; and, also, as I have pointed out (p. 210), Bunjil was regarded as a supernatural being l…
- supernatural in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1611e ancestors of the Kurnai. In this case Yeertino- would have been a totem 324 SUMMARY AND GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. of the Bunjil (Eaglehawk) class. Hence, every descendant under the partially-changed descent in the male lin…
- supernatural in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1610tion took place along the coast, either from the direction of Twofold Bay or from Western Port. Access from either place would be attended with much the same difficulties. There are but few facts upon which an opinion m…
- supernatural in Kamilaroi and Kurnai#1609right side or near his father's; and from whatever cardinal point they arrive, they accordingly fix their camps at some distance from the former. In the camp the husband sleeps at the right-hand side of the fire, his wi…
- supernatural in The folklore, manners, customs, and languages of the South Australian aborigines#1630ho are the judges ? THE ABORIGINES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 15- What punishments are put in force against offenders r 16. What kinds of sorcciyare practised!' Describe them. 17. What funeral customs are there ? 18. How does p…
- supernatural in The Native Tribes of South Australia#1565or months before to both parties; a con- venient place is fixed upon by one party, and messengei's are despatched to invite the enemy; these battles are generally caused by abduction, murder, or aggression with intent t…
- supernatural in The Native Tribes of South Australia#1564d mysteries, I may mention that it is deemed very ignominious abuse, if a person of a higher degree upbraids any one with his still occupying a lower station; warrara purra (still a boy of the first degree only), pardna…
- supernatural in The Native Tribes of South Australia#1563. Another object of terror to the aborigines is called "koonyoo," who flies about at night, and makes a noise in the trees, but is never seen. This being descends to the earth in the dark, alights upon the body of a man…
- supernatural in The Native Tribes of South Australia#1562gan to swell and be painful, and soon showed that there was real inflammation, whatever might be the cause. I treated the place in the best manner I knew how, and it developed into an enormous boil at the base of Digiti…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3508credible that so many strange tales should arise from this source. The natives are good naturalists, and are probably better acquainted with the habits of this duck than we are. The Bun-yip is mentioned by Grey in his w…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3507r smooth. I could never learn from any of the natives that they had seen either the head or tail, so that I could not form a correct idea of their size, or what they were like Here [on the Barwon River] the Bun-yips, th…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3506led in this case, being the first, the natives think death would have had no power over them. The place where the scene occurred, and where Bin-dir-woor was buried, the natives imagine to have been on the southern plain…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3505he night, when the doctors are asleep, the dead person inserts .a mysterious bone into each thigh of the three doctors, who do not feel the puncture more than if an ant had stung them. The bones remain in the flesh of t…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3504hild leave off playing and run up to its mother tg take the breast. "The native women suffer much leas pain during the period of labor than Europeans; directly the cliild is born it is wrapped in opossum skinp, and stri…
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