ghost in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1
counter Bay rely on the dreams of a wise man who sleeps with his head on the corpse ; and on one part of the Murray they watch the drying of the damp clay that covers the grave, and see in the line of the principal fissure where they are to look for the wicked sorcerer who has done to death, by his…
- Record ID
- 1,749
- Year
- 1,878
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- Internet Archive
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 1749
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- Publication
- The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1; R. Brough Smyth
- Published
- 1878
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Victoria and Tasmania (VIC): B
- State or territory
- VIC
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counter Bay rely on the dreams of a wise man who sleeps with his head on the corpse ; and on one part of the Murray they watch the drying of the damp clay that covers the grave, and see in the line of the principal fissure where they are to look for the wicked sorcerer who has done to death, by his charms, their late comjtanion. The natives believe that the spirits or ghosts of the dead remain for at least a little time near the, spots that they loved when living, and it is to satisfy and appease the shades and ghosts that, when a warrior dies, they murder some of the people of a neighbouring tribe. K blood were not shed, the.
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