RECORD ID

3096

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirits

PUBLICATION

Across Australia, volume 2; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

over. As usual, when it was done, its meaning was explained to the younger men, none of whom had seen it before. After doing so they were hardly likely to forget that Imanda, a spot on the bank of the Hugh River where the old man lived and died, was a great centre of the frog totem and that the banks of the river there are inhabited by numberless human frog spirits — just as they, and the sandy bed of the river itself, are full of actual burrowing animal frogs at the present day. In connection with a great many of the ceremonies objects called Nurtunjas were used (Plate VI. and Figs. 127, 128, 129). These varied to a remarkable.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

1. 01spirits in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirits 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
3. 03spirits 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
4. 04spirits 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
5. 05spirits 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. 06spirits in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive