Warrawah in The Aborigines of Tasmania
ercourse 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…
- Record ID
- 2,039
- Year
- 1,890
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2039
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- The Aborigines of Tasmania; H. Ling Roth, J. G. Garson, and contributors
- Published
- 1890
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- Warrawah
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Tasmania (TAS): B
- State or territory
- TAS
- Source voice
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- Publicness
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ercourse 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 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.
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