RECORD ID

3628

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

, or civil dissension, or a tendency to wander and colonise. The leader of such a sept bears the by-name of 'the lion,' or *the bear,' or *the kangaroo.' On his death that animal lis regarded as his visible representative, and is reverenced accordingly. No man of that clan will harm it ; for, on his death-bed, he may have told his people that henceforth his spirit would live in that animal, and so it is the first of their ancestors. That animal becomes to them a * totem,' after which they are named, and to which they look for protection against evil ; if it is a thing, it becomes to them a ' fetich ' in which tho spirit dwells,.

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