RECORD ID

3540

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

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

AUTHOR

Not specified

any trace of any tradition or superstition, besides the "jumping-up of blackfellows as white men," which may be ranked with THE ABOEIGINES OF COOPEE'S CREEK. 309 them, was at a camp where I was talking with a blackfellow, in the evening, when a bright falling-star was visible. He said — "An old blackfellow has fallen down there." It may have meant that the spirit of a blackfellow had fallen down, or that some black had died. I could not ascertain which. All the stars and constellations have names. I have heard the whites often called " Firri wirri coockee.'''' When we suddenly came iipon a camp, I have heard a yell of " Pirri.

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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