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ghost in The Aborigines of Tasmania

YEAR
1890
PLACE
Tasmania
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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ghost in The Aborigines of Tasmania

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, sign…

Record ID
2,049
Year
1,890
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
2049
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
ghost
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Tasmania (TAS): B
State or territory
TAS
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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 ideas were of a future state, and where they thought the departed went to. They all answered, * Dreeny^ that is, to England,.

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