RECORD ID

3116

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

ers which are all the more attractive to him because all knowledge of them is so jealously guarded by the older men. Up to the time of initiation the Arunta boy is taught to believe that the strange noise which warns him, just as it does the women, to keep far away from the sacred ground where the men are performing magic ceremonies, is the voice of a great spirit called Twanyirika. When he is initiated he learns that this is simply a tale told to mystify the women and children, and that, in reality, the noise is made by the magic bull-roarer — a thin slab of wood, twirled round at the end of a string — and a few are solemnly.

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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