RECORD ID

3061

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Across Australia, volume 1; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

which were deposited there. In our II LAKE EYRE REGION 21 camp at Tjantjiwanperta we slept every night at the base of a group of granite boulders (Fig. 10) which arose to mark the spot where certain of the mythic ancestors of the tribe (who, in this instance, were pigeon people) camped during their wanderings ; and these boulders are now the home of pigeon spirits, left behind by the forefathers, who wandered over their ancestral domains just as their modern descendants do — or rather did, until the white man appeared upon the scene. Every child that is born in the Urabunna tribe is supposed to be a spirit child come to life.

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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