RECORD ID

1987

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Australian Race, volume 2; Edward Micklethwaite Curr

AUTHOR

Not specified

r away, should also regard the Milky Way as connected with themselves, as well as the Narrinyeri tribe:* To the man who has led a bad life, death is thought to be simple annihilation. Goin, the evil spirit, is said to be an old mau, with claws like an eagle and feet like an alligator, who occasionally, in the dark, tears people to pieces. They much fear the ghosts of their departed kinsfolk, and, if they think one is near, will sometimes rush at night from their camps in the wildest dismay, each to hide where best he can. • * See Taplin's Folklorey p. 39. 476 THE AUSTEALIAK RACE: In sandstone caves, which are nmnerons in their.

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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