RECORD ID

3181

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Across Australia, volume 1; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

pied by his own local group. There never appears to be any attempt made to annex new country or to encroach in any way upon other tribes or groups. This is a result of the very firmly-fixed belief of the natives that they are the direct descendants or reincarnations of ancient ancestors, who were especially associated with certain local spots at which their spirit parts remained when they died and their bodies went into the earth. If we take any one such local group we find that it consists of men, women, and children numbering not more, as a general rule, than one hundred and often less than a score, and occupying a tract of land.

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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