RECORD ID

3121

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

old woman who, from choice, had not spoken a word for twenty-five years (Fig. 204). She was very ancient and decrepit when we saw her, and before this she has probably gone to her grave without uttering a word. The ban of silence does not, unfortunately, preclude a woman from wailing, and night after night we used to hear the weird wailing for the dead. The spirit of a dead person is supposed to haunt the old camping-ground, and to be gratified if it sees or hears that its old companions are properly performing the mourning ceremonies. Not only is the spirit supposed to be hovering around, but the time that immediately follows.

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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