RECORD ID

3620

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

those who pass throuj»h the Bora paint themselves white at its close. Everywhere in Australia there is the belief that the black man, when he is dead and buried, still lives ; but he is then white. Our indi- ^nes say, ^' Black man dead jumps up white fellow;" hence a white man is called ' wunda, ' a word which originally described only the black man in his spirit state after death. The father of a friend of mine was the first white man to enter, some sixty years ago, the territory of a black tribute near to where I lived. It so happened that the tribe had just lost their chief by death ; and so, as the wnite man whom they saw.

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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