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ghost in Eaglehawk and Crow

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1899
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ghost in Eaglehawk and Crow

superstition common to all primitive Papuans. The Australians have what may be termed an apprehension of ghosts rather than a belief in them, the relations of the living with the spirits being more or less intimate in different tribes. In the tribe with which I was best acquainted, while the blacks…

Record ID
1,571
Year
1,899
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1571
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Eaglehawk and Crow; John Mathew
Published
1899
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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superstition common to all primitive Papuans. The Australians have what may be termed an apprehension of ghosts rather than a belief in them, the relations of the living with the spirits being more or less intimate in different tribes. In the tribe with which I was best acquainted, while the blacks had a term for ghost and believed that there were departed spirits who were sometimes to be seen among the foliage, individual men would tell you upon inquiry that they believed that death was the last of them. In other words, a man's per- sonality died with his body and was not continued in his ghost. A ghost was called a * shadow,'.

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