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
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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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
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
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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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