RECORD ID

2357

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Retellings and Adaptations

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Australian fairy tales; Atha Westbury

AUTHOR

Not specified

as if to stay the departing spirit in its flight. “Oh, mamma! there is little brother Frank with my garland. See! he is beckoning to me.” And then the weary little head fell forward on the mother’s shoulder, and the tired spirit entered into rest. IN THE CLOUDS. They came to the boy one night when he was abed, and said they would take him with them in their fairy balloon. Willie Fenton told his father and mother that he had seen the elfins, and what they had promised him, but they only laughed at him and told him he had been dreaming. Our hero wasn’t to be convinced that it was only a dream. Hadn’t he seen them—three fairy.

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1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive