RECORD ID

3113

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

lked away to the spot 3 and looked back and said, " I can see the water, it is close up yet ; " then he walked on to 4, 5, and 6, each square indicating a resting-place, at which he made the same remark. At 7 he said, " That water long way off now," then he walked on to 8, much further away, and there he died, the black square indicating a tree in which his spirit now lives, though it often goes back to the original waterhole along the track marked 9. The narration reduced to this concise form sounds very commonplace ; but each such narrative, though it may only recount how an old man walked over the country and finally died,.

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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