RECORD ID

3269

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

haa gone to after it has left the body; they say that it goes westward to Nuronderi. Then we believe in other spirits who walk about tiie earth, and who can make themselves to be seen or unseen as they like. There is NalkAru, a terrible spirit who seeks to kill people ; and there is Melapi, who is always lying in wait for men. Have any of us ever seen these spirits ? Yes ; I have heard our old men say they have. My father saw Melapi once; the old man says he is sure he did. The way it * Pangari means ''shadow '" it \& equivalent to our term ''shade.*' Digitized byN^OOQlC 142 UTTERANCE OF EMOTION BY SOUND. happened was this : — My.

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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