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1878
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Victoria
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supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1

r smooth. I could never learn from any of the natives that they had seen either the head or tail, so that I could not form a correct idea of their size, or what they were like Here [on the Barwon River] the Bun-yips, the extraordinary animals I have already mentioned, were often seen by the natives…

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1,878
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3507
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The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1; R. Brough Smyth
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1878 public-domain Victorian and Tasmanian ethnographic source exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
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Spirit-Person Narratives
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supernatural
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Gold Rush Colonial
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Victoria and Tasmania (VIC): B
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VIC
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r smooth. I could never learn from any of the natives that they had seen either the head or tail, so that I could not form a correct idea of their size, or what they were like Here [on the Barwon River] the Bun-yips, the extraordinary animals I have already mentioned, were often seen by the natives, who had a great dread of them, believing them to have some supernatural power over human beings, so as to occasion death, sickness, disease, and such like misfortunes They told me a story of a woman having been killed by one of them, stating that it happened in this way : — A particular family one day was surprised at the great.

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