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spirit in More Australian Legendary Tales

YEAR
1898
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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spirit in More Australian Legendary Tales

rpse-feeding is recent. In Mrs. Parker's book Byamee is implored to receive the soul of Eerin. '* For Eerin was faithful on earth, faithful to the laws you left us." The mourners ** let their blood drop into his grave," but such a sacrifice is not necessarily more than a tribute of affectionate reg…

Record ID
3,078
Year
1,898
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3078
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
More Australian Legendary Tales; K. Langloh Parker
Published
1898 public-domain folklore collection exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
spirit
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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rpse-feeding is recent. In Mrs. Parker's book Byamee is implored to receive the soul of Eerin. '* For Eerin was faithful on earth, faithful to the laws you left us." The mourners ** let their blood drop into his grave," but such a sacrifice is not necessarily more than a tribute of affectionate regret. It need not imply feeding, while of later sacrifices to spirits I have vainly looked for a trace. Now, by a mythical inconsistency, the spirit of Eerin (or one of his spirits, perhaps his doowee) dwells in a grey owl. Here, then, is a kind of theism, and beside it only the germs of an animism which is not yet a religion of service.

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