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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

ole in the sand behind her hut, and, having given it a " little " knock on the head, laid it in the hole, and kept on crying, the child ciyiug too, till she could bear it no longer ; and then went out and gave it another " little " knock, which, however, killed it ; and then she cried for several d…

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1,878
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3535
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The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2; 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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spirit
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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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ole in the sand behind her hut, and, having given it a " little " knock on the head, laid it in the hole, and kept on crying, the child ciyiug too, till she could bear it no longer ; and then went out and gave it another " little " knock, which, however, killed it ; and then she cried for several days. I have already stated the very -general belief that the spirit of a deceased person assumes a fresh corporeal form ; but I think some tribes must have thought that the re-embodiment took place some time after death, for they displayed great care in the interment of a dead man by firmly tying the thumb of the right hand to the great.

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