RECORD ID

1389

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines; Walter E. Roth

AUTHOR

Not specified

fterwards described (sect. 263), the pebble, flint, bone, &e., that Aanmare put there, with the result that the individual recovers and becomes a doctor himself. ‘The bone so removed, the kanmare-bone, is a rather long one, and coloured dark: as usual, it is said to be sharpened at one extremity, and covered with cementing substance at the other. Mo-ma, the ghost, or shade, or spirit of someone departed can also initiate an individual into the mysteries of the craft. It is he that haunts the graves of the dead: the Mitakoodi call him Lim-bi-ja-koo-lun. Another method of initiating the doctor or munguni-maro is to put into the.

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1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive