RECORD ID

3296

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Northern Tribes of Central Australia; Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen

AUTHOR

Not specified

to the Kirarawa moiety, will serve to illustrate the Urabunna belief. In the Alcheringa a green and a brown snake arose. At first they “ sat down,” as the natives say, inside a water-hole called Yanidi, making fur- string. Coming out they started away on their wanderings and came to Mura-murara, where they made string, eat grass seed, and left mai-aurli or spirit children behind them. These mai-aurli came out from their bodies. Looking back they saw smoke in the direction of the Macumba River, where the country was all on fire. As they travelled along the brown snake took the lead, the green following behind. It was these two.

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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