RECORD ID

1960

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Australian Race, volume 3; Edward Micklethwaite Curr

AUTHOR

Not specified

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. MABYBOBOUQH. 137 When a male of good character dies, he is allowed to enter the happy hunting-grounds at once, being first ferried over the wide river which bounds it by two young women in a bark canoe, one of whom subsequently becomes his wife. The following are.

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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