RECORD ID

1887

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

spirits

PUBLICATION

The Australian Race, volume 1; Edward Micklethwaite Curr

AUTHOR

Not specified

of them pierce the septum of the nose; possibly, however, YORK DISTRICT. 339 this want of uniformity may be merely a neglect of old customs, arising out of the laxity which has no doubt in a general way resulted from, the intrusion of the Whites. In fits of grief the women often scratch themselves till the blood flows. The Whajook believe in evU spirits and ghosts. The latter they call gengar^ and, as widows and mothers always fear that the lately dead may visit their camps at night to warm themselves, they make a fire a little distance from their own for the special use of the departed. This practice is carried on for some.

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