Boonbolong in Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales
give the password would be devoured. The evil spirit in the Newcastle and Port Stephens districts was called " Koen," and was represented as being an 4 NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. animal very much like a camel, but much larger. Their theory was that this " Devil Devil" would devour…
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- 2,028
- Year
- 1,892
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- Internet Archive
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- Record ID
- 2028
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- Publication
- Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales; Richard Hill and George Thornton
- Published
- 1892
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- Boonbolong
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Newcastle, NSW (NSW): high; Sydney, Botany, and southern districts, NSW (NSW): B
- State or territory
- NSW
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give the password would be devoured. The evil spirit in the Newcastle and Port Stephens districts was called " Koen," and was represented as being an 4 NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. animal very much like a camel, but much larger. Their theory was that this " Devil Devil" would devour any blackfellow whom he found asleep, m the same manner as " Boonbolong." Not all the philosophy in the world (in my opinion) will ever dispossess the aboriginal mind of the idea of evil spirits, nor do they seem able to grasp the doctrine of a Supreme Being. They are firm believers in the doctrine of Metempsychosis, or the.
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