spirit of the dead in North Queensland Ethnography. Bulletin No. 9. Burial ceremonies, and disposal of the dead
RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. and by so doing, to insure the well-being of the survivors. Death, disease and accident are not natural phenomena in that they are believed to be due directly or indirectly to human agency,” to some enemy in the flesh or spirit? dooming the individual to a particul…
- Record ID
- 2,120
- Year
- 1,907
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 2120
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- North Queensland Ethnography. Bulletin No. 9. Burial ceremonies, and disposal of the dead; Walter E. Roth
- Published
- 1907
- Narrative type
- Spirit-Person Narratives
- Public-text label
- spirit of the dead
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- North Queensland (QLD): B
- State or territory
- QLD
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RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. and by so doing, to insure the well-being of the survivors. Death, disease and accident are not natural phenomena in that they are believed to be due directly or indirectly to human agency,” to some enemy in the flesh or spirit? dooming the individual to a particular form of death e.g. by lightning, flood, spear: it is this spirit of the dead in one form or another that brings all their troubles and dangers to the living, and hence the anxiety of the latter to satisfy is claims to the lastfar thing. Furthermore, the influence for good or for evil of such spirits is to be judged from the bodies.
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