RECORD ID

1892

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Australian Race, volume 1; Edward Micklethwaite Curr

AUTHOR

Not specified

ncantations of enemies, and always to portend evil. In the existence, too, of spirits, which are invariably described as malevolent, belief is very general; and the doctors and old men have, most of them, stories to tell of the bad turns which such gentry had done the tribe. I much doubt whether, prior to the arrival of the Whites in Australia, a beneficent spirit had ever been heard of; for the Australian, like the Negro, was Satanic in his ideas. It happened occasionally, in early times, that the first White men seen by the Blacks were MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 51 thought to be their deceased countrymen come back to them. Of course.

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1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive