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spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2

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1878
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Victoria
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spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2

ung, who resides in the winter-time on a hill on the south of the Helena River, near Mount Dale, in the Darling Bange ; but in the summer he dwells on the other side of the river, became he cannot cross it nhenjioodcd. These imaginary beings are all material, and subject to the same physical condit…

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3,530
Year
1,878
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Record ID
3530
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2; R. Brough Smyth
Published
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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spirit
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
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Victoria and Tasmania (VIC): B
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VIC
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ung, who resides in the winter-time on a hill on the south of the Helena River, near Mount Dale, in the Darling Bange ; but in the summer he dwells on the other side of the river, became he cannot cross it nhenjioodcd. These imaginary beings are all material, and subject to the same physical conditions as themselves. Yet they have some undefined notion of a spirit, or soul, or perhaps of a personal identity which is independent of their present corporiety. They think that if they are buried they will rise again with some different body; hence tlieir desire to take down and bury the two men who were gibbeted for the murder of Mrs..

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