RECORD ID

3483

FIGURE

Ghost

NARRATIVE

Ghost and Apparition Accounts

PRINTED LABEL

ghosts

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

hen old and stale, they are placed up in trees, on boughs laid across for this purpose. Sometimes they burn the bones of the dead and carry the ashes about with them. Sometimes the dead bodies are placed (whole) in trees. They do not like to speak about the dead ; among themselves, it is generally done in a sort of a whisper ; and they are firm believers in ghosts. There is great mourning and crying when a young man dies, and the female relatives cut themselves about in a frightful manner with shells, kc. But there is very little weeping or wailing when a woman or an old man dies.* Capt. Grey, quoting Dr. Duncan, says that when a.

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1. 01ghosts 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
2. 02ghosts 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
3. 03ghosts in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive
4. 04ghosts in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive
5. 05ghosts in Old Tales of a Young Country1871 · Project Gutenberg Australia
6. 06ghosts in For the Term of His Natural Life1874 · Project Gutenberg