ghost in The Aborigines of Tasmania
vous goblins, whose abodes were caverns and dark recesses of the dense forests, clefts in rocks on the mountain tops, etc. ; and that they considered one or two spirits to be of omnipotent energy ; but that they do not seem to have invested even these last with attributes of benevolence, although t…
- Record ID
- 1,709
- Year
- 1,899
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1709
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- The Aborigines of Tasmania; H. Ling Roth, Marion E. Butler, James Backhouse Walker, J. G. Garson, E. B. Tylor
- Published
- 1899
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Tasmania (TAS): B
- State or territory
- TAS
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
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vous goblins, whose abodes were caverns and dark recesses of the dense forests, clefts in rocks on the mountain tops, etc. ; and that they considered one or two spirits to be of omnipotent energy ; but that they do not seem to have invested even these last with attributes of benevolence, although they reposed unqualified trust in the tutelar agencies of the spirits of their departed friends and relations. To these guardian spirits they gave the generic name War- rawak,* an aboriginal term, like the Latin word umbra, signifying shade, shadow, ghost, or' apparition." Calder relates that on one occasion, ** while the natives were.
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