RECORD ID

2038

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of Tasmania; H. Ling Roth, J. G. Garson, and contributors

AUTHOR

Not specified

ccount of Milligan, taken from Papers Roy. Soc. of V. D. Land for Jan. 1855, is as follows: "Mr. Milligan said he had ascertained that the Tasmanian aborigines, previous to their intercourse with Europeans, distinctly enterteiined the idea of immortality as re- garded the soul or spirit of man ; their legends proved also their belief in a host of malevolent spirits and mischievous goblins, whose abodes were caverns and dark recesses of the dense forests, clefts in rocks on the mountain 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.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

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