RECORD ID

3441

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1; R. Brough Smyth

AUTHOR

Not specified

" In the beginning," say the Dieyerie, "the Moora-moora (good spirit) made a number of small black lizards (these are still to be met with under dry bark), aud being pleased with them, he promised they should have power over all other creeping things. The Moora-moora then divided their feet into toes and fingers, and placing his forefinger on the centre of the face, created a nose, and so in like manner afterwards eyes, mouth, and ears. The spirit then placed one of them in a standing position, which it could not, however, retain, whereupon the Deity cut off the tail, aud the lizard walked erect. They were then made male aud.

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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