RECORD ID

3063

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

determined to travel, and took all the blackfellows whom he had made on his back, the boy mounting on to the very top. At the present day a great heap of withered boulders with one perched on the top represents the spot where this took place (Fig. 1 1). They travelled on, sometimes going up into the sky, sometimes travelling underground, but always leaving spirit children, called " maiaurli," behind wherever they camped. At length they met another old rain-man, with his cloud of blackfellows. They all mixed together, and finally travelled on into the country of the Wonkgonguru tribe, where they went into the ground, leaving plenty.

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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