ghost in Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia
brother took the body ashore and laid it near the fire, and wept. He then went for his friends, who came and carried the corpse to their home. After he ANECDOTES. 109 had watched it for two days, the relatives put it in a tree for one moon, and then burned it, with the exception of the leg and arm…
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- 1,881
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- Internet Archive
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- 3243
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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
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Western District, VIC (VIC): B
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- VIC
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brother took the body ashore and laid it near the fire, and wept. He then went for his friends, who came and carried the corpse to their home. After he ANECDOTES. 109 had watched it for two days, the relatives put it in a tree for one moon, and then burned it, with the exception of the leg and arm bones, which were given to the friends of the deceased. THE GHOST. A man, travelling in the country of a friendly tribe, came upon a deserted habitation. Above the doorway he saw the usual crooked stick, pointing in the direction which the family had taken; and, all round about the place, pieces of bark covered with white clay,.
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