RECORD ID

3536

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 2; R. Brough Smyth

AUTHOR

Not specified

was kept burning before it for several days, and a hut was sometimes buUt over it. They seemed to think that, notwithstanding their efforts to keep their friend down, he got up and warmed himself. WhQe the interment was being made, tlie Bubja-gadak sat at the head of the grave, bending from time to time his head to the ground to listen for the flight of the spirit, and the information it might have to give him as to the evil being who had caused his death. From the time of death uutd after the burial, which took place within twenty-four hours, the wives and female connections of the deceased kept up their lamentations by.

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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