ghosts in Kamilaroi and Kurnai
o believe or think ; ugarinda = to hook or catch ; mri = eye ; miirrawun = throwing-stick. The throwing-stick is supposed to have magical properties. t For Bulk, see p. 251. + [I could give many similar instances which have come within my own knowledge among the Fijians ; and, strange to say, the d…
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- 3,388
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- 1,880
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- Internet Archive
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- 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
- ghosts
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- New South Wales and Victoria (NSW): B
- State or territory
- NSW
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o believe or think ; ugarinda = to hook or catch ; mri = eye ; miirrawun = throwing-stick. The throwing-stick is supposed to have magical properties. t For Bulk, see p. 251. + [I could give many similar instances which have come within my own knowledge among the Fijians ; and, strange to say, the dying man, in all these cases, kept his aj^pointment with the ghosts to the very day. — L.F.] 248 THE KURXAT. White men existence after death, it is not surprising that, when they thought to 1 . . 1 1 1 ii 11 he ghosts, first saw white men wandering in the bush, they regarded them as " ghosts." This belief follows naturally upon the.
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