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spirit in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia

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1881
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Victoria
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spirit in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia

be, that he took the form of a heron, and, lighting on the tree, knocked it down and killed nearly the whole of the tribe. Those who escaped ran off and told the other tribes who were encamped in the neighbourhood what had happened. When they came to the spot, they found that the heron had eaten al…

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3,241
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1,881
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3241
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Internet Archive
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Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia; James Dawson
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1881 public-domain western Victorian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
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Spirit-Person Narratives
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spirit
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Gold Rush Colonial
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Western District, VIC (VIC): B
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VIC
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be, that he took the form of a heron, and, lighting on the tree, knocked it down and killed nearly the whole of the tribe. Those who escaped ran off and told the other tribes who were encamped in the neighbourhood what had happened. When they came to the spot, they found that the heron had eaten all the fish. In revenge they laid upon him the curse that his spirit would fly about for ever in the form of a blue heron, and then they killed him. THE NATIVE COMPANION AND THE EMU. A native companion and an emu, each with a brood of young ones, went to a swamp to get sedge roots, which are very good to eat. They kindled a fire on the.

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