ghost in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia
under his command a number of inferior spirits, who are permitted to visit the surface of the earth occasionally. No human being has ever returned to tell what kind of place Ummekulleen is. There is a belief, however, that there is nothing but fire there, and that the souls of bad people get neithe…
- Record ID
- 1,636
- Year
- 1,881
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 1636
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia; James Dawson
- Published
- 1881
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Western District, VIC (VIC): B
- State or territory
- VIC
- Source voice
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- Publicness
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under his command a number of inferior spirits, who are permitted to visit the surface of the earth occasionally. No human being has ever returned to tell what kind of place Ummekulleen is. There is a belief, however, that there is nothing but fire there, and that the souls of bad people get neither meat nor drink, and are terribly knocked about by the evil spirits. A spirit lives in the moon, called Muuruup neung kuurn tarrong’enat, meaning ‘devil in the moon.’ Children are sometimes threatened, when they are bad, that this Muuruup will be sent for to take them to the moon. Of terrestrial spirits there are devils, wraiths,.
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