Warrawah in The Aborigines of Tasmania
ountain tops, etc. ; and that they con- sidered one or two spirits to be of omnipotent energy ; but that they do not seem to have invested even these last with attributes of benevolence, although they reposed unqualified trust in the tutelar agencies of the spirits of their departed friends and rel…
- Record ID
- 2,030
- Year
- 1,890
- Source
- Internet Archive
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2030
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- The Aborigines of Tasmania; H. Ling Roth, J. G. Garson, and contributors
- Published
- 1890
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- Warrawah
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Tasmania (TAS): B
- State or territory
- TAS
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ountain tops, etc. ; and that they con- sidered one or two spirits to be of omnipotent energy ; but that they do not seem to have invested even these last with attributes of benevolence, although they reposed unqualified trust in the tutelar agencies of the spirits of their departed friends and relations. To these guardian spirits they gave the generic name Warrawah, an aboriginal term, like the Latin word umbra, signi- 68 ABORIGINES OF TASMANIA. fying shade, shadow, ghost, or apparition." Calder relates that on one occasion, "while the natives were making the funeral pile, Robinson took occasion to extract from them what their.
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