RECORD ID

1958

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Australian Race, volume 3; Edward Micklethwaite Curr

AUTHOR

Not specified

arded to me by Mr. Henry P. Somerset, who got them drawn up by James MacPherson, fonnerly a bushranger, and known by the name of the Wild Scotchman. MacPherson says that the Maryborough or Wide Bay Blacks, whom he had a good opportunity of knowing, cer- tainly believe in God, whom they call Birral, and who lives in the clouds beyond the sea; also in an Evil Spirit they call Moontoon, who enters into the bodies of birds and other creatures, and frightens them by night. It is a custom of this tribe to strip the bodies of deceased males of their skins, dry them, and carry them about for a time.. After the death of a man, the old men.

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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