RECORD ID

3274

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

ul, the boy or girl never winces. KURRAWELLIE WONKANNA. (Circumcision.) As soon as the hair on the boy's face makes its appearance, a council of old men, not relatives to the boy, is held; but no warn- ing is given to him or his parents. Everything is kept secret. A woman, also not related to the boy, is then selected, and her * Note. — Mooramoora is a good spirit, god, or divine being; and, although they have no form of religious worship, they speak of the Mooramoora with great reverence. Digitized byVrrOOQlC 1268 THE DIEYERIE TRIBE. duty is to suspend a mussel-shell round his neck. Whereupon, some appointed night, just before.

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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