RECORD ID

3601

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Retellings and Adaptations

PRINTED LABEL

spirits

PUBLICATION

Eaglehawk and Crow; John Mathew

AUTHOR

Not specified

ity a few men who excelled in pretension to skill in the art. The titles of these magicians varied with the community,* but by unanimous consent the whites have called them " doctors," and they correspond to the medicine-men and rain- makers of other barbarous nations. The power of the doctor is only circumscribed by the range of his fancy. He communes with spirits, takes aerial flights at pleasure, kills or cures, is invialnerable and invisible at will, and controls the elements. I remember a little black boy. when angry, threatening me with getting his father to set the thunder and lightning a-going. The same boy told me.

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1. 01spirits in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirits 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
3. 03spirits 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
4. 04spirits 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
5. 05spirits 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. 06spirits in Queensland, Australia1861 · Internet Archive