RECORD ID

3254

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Native Tribes of South Australia; George Taplin, James Dominick Woods, William Wyatt, H. A. E. Meyer, C. W. Schürmann, Samuel Gason, J. W. O. Bennett

AUTHOR

Not specified

manage the requisite amount of crjring I never could imagine. For one minute a woman will appear in the de^>est agony of grief and tears; a few mintites affcer, the con- ventional amount of weeping having been accomplished, they win laugh and talk with the merriest. I feel persuaded that fear has more to do with most of these exhibitions than grief But the spirit of the dead is not considered to have been appeased imtQ his relatives have avenged his death. They will kill the sorcerer who has caused it if they can catch him; but generally they cannot catch him, and often do not wish it. Most probably he belongs to some other tribe.

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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