RECORD ID

1959

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Australian Race, volume 3; Edward Micklethwaite Curr

AUTHOR

Not specified

s, dry them, and carry them about for a time.. After the death of a man, the old men and women commence singing a dirge some hours before daylight, asking the deceased why he left them. The first sound they hear whilst thus engaged, whether it be the rustling of a bough or the cry of a bird or animal, they receive as his last &r&: well, and believe that his spirit, which till th6n had hovered about them, has taken its departure. If the deceased has been a bad character, he is compelled to wander over rocky mountains until all his earthly friends are dead, and that with the last of them he is aUowed to enter the spirit land..

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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