RECORD ID

3183

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

ed. As they wandered over the Arunta country they made all the natural features — creeks, clay-pans, waterholes, hills and gorges — which are now familiar to the natives. At certain places they halted to perform ceremonies, and there different members of the party died — or, as the natives say, went down into the ground ; that is, their bodies did but their spirit, parts remained above in com- pany with the Churinga, and stayed behind when the party moved on, dwelling afterwards in some tree or rock which was henceforth sacred to them and was called their Nanja (Fig. 82). The whole Arunta country is dotted over with such spots,.

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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