RECORD ID

1568

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Eaglehawk and Crow; John Mathew

AUTHOR

Not specified

n aperture with four spiral grooves in the perforation. The Hindoos believe that these apertures are the traces of Vishnu having entered the stones in the form of a reptile. It is worthy of note that among the New Hebrideans, as the Rev. Dr. J. G, Paton has told me, the sacred pebbles have a small aperture, regarded as the place of exit and entrance for the spirit which the stone represents. The Scdcujrama stones are found in the bed of the Gundak River, and are supposed by Coleman to be mineralised fossils of the Beleranites or Orthoceratites. The Binlang stones found in the Nerbudda River are worshipped as emblems of Siva. 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