RECORD ID

3385

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Kamilaroi and Kurnai; Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt

AUTHOR

Not specified

ed about with them. di-eams. 246 THE KIJRNAT. Ancestral Tlie deceased was supposed by the Kiirnai to pass to supposed the clouds, as a spirit. But he did not necessarily remain to visit the ,»,,„, Kiirnai iu there, lor male and female spirits are also Lelieved ta wander about in the country which they inhabited in the flesh, and may be properly spoken of as ghosts. They are believed to be able still to communicate with the living, through persons whom they have initiated into the secrets of spirit land ; of these people, called birraark, I shall speak more fully later on. They are also believed to occasionally communicate with.

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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