RECORD ID

3386

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

n 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 their descendants in dreams.*" These " ghosts " may be said to be the ancestors of those with whom they communicate and, to be, therefore, well disposed to them ; but there are other " ghosts " which are believed to be evil disposed, which are tliought to prowl about and to endeavour to capture the Kurnai, and we.

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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