RECORD ID

3563

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines; Christina Smith

AUTHOR

Not specified

they remained all the night in the water. After the wtute men went away the natives went back to the lire, and found one of their men shot dead. 28 TBS BOOANDIK TSIBE OF CHAPTER III. ICJ.O't^ |itiperBtition0, SSittkmtft, 'Sec. Idea of the Hereafter— WitcJicraft— Dreaming' Doctors, r jHEIR notions of the hereafter are few and vague. They say their "bo-ong" (spirit) after death would go **kan ngaro" (up above), where everything is to be found better than on earth. A fat kangaroo is said, by way of praise, to be perfect, like the kangaroo of the clouds. They had no object of worship that I could dis- cover. The following legend is.

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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