RECORD ID

3629

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

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, and may do them good or ill, according to their behaviour towards it. In Scotland, although there is no * totemism ' there, yet the principles which produced it in savage nations still exist ; for a loyal Bruce will not willingly kill a spider; the Highland.

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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