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ghost in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

YEAR
1880
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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ghost in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

wn. Death by accident they can imagine — death by violence they can imagine — but I ques- tion if they can, in their savage condition, imagine death by mere disease. . . . Thus the belief arises that death occurs only from accident, open violence, or secret magic ; and, naturally, that the latter c…

Record ID
3,383
Year
1,880
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3383
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Kamilaroi and Kurnai; Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt
Published
1880 public-domain Australian ethnographic book exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
New South Wales and Victoria (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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wn. Death by accident they can imagine — death by violence they can imagine — but I ques- tion if they can, in their savage condition, imagine death by mere disease. . . . Thus the belief arises that death occurs only from accident, open violence, or secret magic ; and, naturally, that the latter can only be met by counter- charms." And, of a like belief in ghosts, he gives the fol- lowing instance of a native mistaking a living European for a ghost : — " A BrabrolCing told me that, when he was a little boy, near the Tambo river, and he saw a white man for the first time, he felt sure that it was a mrart [ghost], and he ran.

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