spirit in Australian Legends
he side gushed the spring. In dry times It simply was swallowed up in peaty ground beneath the tea-tree and Leptospermum and Ceratopetalums, but in rainy times it o'erbore them and joined the river. A spirit often came out from that glen. it was speckled with glowing fires that flashed and were cov…
- Record ID
- 1,903
- Year
- 1,925
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 1903
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Australian Legends; C. W. Peck
- Published
- 1925
- Narrative type
- Descriptive Belief Records
- Public-text label
- spirit
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- New South Wales (NSW): B
- State or territory
- NSW
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
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he side gushed the spring. In dry times It simply was swallowed up in peaty ground beneath the tea-tree and Leptospermum and Ceratopetalums, but in rainy times it o'erbore them and joined the river. A spirit often came out from that glen. it was speckled with glowing fires that flashed and were covered, and flashed and were covered, over and over again. The spirit was light and ethereal, for it could never be seen in its entirety and it could never be heard. All the tribe knew of it, and all held it in awe. All but the medicine man, and he, sometimes, when he had donned the mystic pipe-clay bands, went right up to the spring and.
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