RECORD ID

1986

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Australian Race, volume 2; Edward Micklethwaite Curr

AUTHOR

Not specified

ave been what they hold to be good, he is said to ascend to Bporala (i.^., to the Creator^ literally good)^ where he lives much as he did on earth, less the usual terrestrial discomforts. The Milky Way, which is called Tttgar (i.e., smoke), is said to be the smoke proceeding firom celestial grass) set fire to by departed women, who by this signal direct the ghosts of the deceased (as they did their husbands of old to their bush camp) to the eternal camp-fires of the tribe. It is strange that the Eucla people, so far away, should also regard the Milky Way as connected with themselves, as well as the Narrinyeri tribe:* To the man.

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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