RECORD ID

3561

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines; Christina Smith

AUTHOR

Not specified

d of his auger. Baringial asked Wirmal and Daroo the question, *' How long would the dead lie in "their graves?" The two good men agreed that if a man had two wives living, he must lie two days ; but a bird called ** gillen" (magpie) perched on a high branch of a gum tree, and cried, ** No, no, no ; leave the dead in the earth till it turns ** to earth. The spirit goes to the land in the sea, where the sun " rises, and never comes back to earth." Wirmal said all the blacks that did not kill their spirits would go to the land in the sea. The Wreck of the ''Maria:* The following is the Booandik version of the wreck of the Maria,.

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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