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spirit in The Australian Race, volume 1

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1886
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Western Australia
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Internet Archive
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spirit in The Australian Race, volume 1

d sticks, which one of the women carries with her for two or three months, and places every night near a fire made apart for the purpose. Bundles of this sort, it is believed, are very attractive to ghosts, and generally detain them from coming to the huts of their PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 331 rel…

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1,886
Year
1,886
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1886
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Australian Race, volume 1; Edward Micklethwaite Curr
Published
1886
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
spirit
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Eastern Australia: B; Perth, WA (WA): high
State or territory
WA
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d sticks, which one of the women carries with her for two or three months, and places every night near a fire made apart for the purpose. Bundles of this sort, it is believed, are very attractive to ghosts, and generally detain them from coming to the huts of their PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 331 relatives. Now and then, however, there is a mauvais sujet of a ghost who will persist in rollicking about the camp and frightening its inmates in all sorts of ways. Deaths, happen how they may, are always set down as the work of some conjuror of a hostile tribe, who has managed to intro- duce, whilst yet alive, a Bolya, or evil spirit,.

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