RECORD ID

3596

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Eaglehawk and Crow; John Mathew

AUTHOR

Not specified

ns of their particular totems and, at the same time, " each performer represents an ancestral individual who lived in the Alcheringa. He was a member of a group of individuals, all of whom, just like himself, were the direct descendants or transformations of the animals, the names of which they respectively bear. It is as a re-incarnation of the never dying spirit, part of one of these semi-animal ancestors, that every member of the tribe is born, he or she bears of necessity the * "Native Tribes of South Australia," p. 64. t "Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria," 1S97, pp. 24, 25. X Ibid. pp. 153, 154. 112 EAGLEHAWK AND.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

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