RECORD ID

1983

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

spirits

PUBLICATION

The Australian Race, volume 2; Edward Micklethwaite Curr

AUTHOR

Not specified

the curlew (willaroo) to sound alarums from evening till morning; also, in a god of the winds, one Pindee, author of thunder, who gathers the clouds and (but sparingly) breaks them with a blow. They hold, too, that the spirits (koylppa) of the departed walk the earth after dark, and that the whisperings of leaves, when all else is still, are the murmurs of ghostly voices; nevertheless, they are not utterly averse from moderate travel by night. In respect of death, they somewhat illogically maintain (or maintained) that no man can die a natural death except through the ill- offices of an enemy, and that the manes of the dead cannot.

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1. 01spirits in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirits 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
3. 03spirits 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
4. 04spirits 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
5. 05spirits 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. 06spirits in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive