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Warrawah in The Aborigines of Tasmania

YEAR
1890
PLACE
Tasmania
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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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
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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
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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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