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1886
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Western Australia
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spirits in Notes on the Aborigines of Western Australia

d with the adults. These ceremonies, of course, differ more or less in proportion to the rank and means of the deceased ; but as death is not considered a natural event, but the effect, if not of violence then of sorcery, it commonly happens that, in obedience to the "lex talionis," a human victim…

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1,886
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2059
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Notes on the Aborigines of Western Australia; C. G. Nicolay
Published
1886
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
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spirits
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
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Western Australia (WA): B
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WA
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d with the adults. These ceremonies, of course, differ more or less in proportion to the rank and means of the deceased ; but as death is not considered a natural event, but the effect, if not of violence then of sorcery, it commonly happens that, in obedience to the "lex talionis," a human victim or victims will be offered to the manes of the deceased. The spirit is supposed to leave the body, and go to the west ; but it must be presumed to assume afterwards a bodily shape, as some among the old colonists were recognised as the returned spirits of friends and relations, being palefaced and coming from the west Governor Weld.

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