RECORD ID

3097

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

man, assisted by the other two, continued to do this all night long. The old men walked up and down singing and watching the young men, who remained perfectly silent, as did the three performers. One — the oldest man present — the aold white bat " as we used to call him, in allusion to his totem — was much in evidence, and evidently entered deeply into the spirit of the ceremony, singing without cessation until his cracked, squeaky voice gave way, and whispering solemnly every now and then to one or other of the younger men, all of whom, probably, were by no means sorry to have a comparatively quiet night's rest. The night passed.

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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