RECORD ID

3640

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

it that these ancestors were once in contact with, or rather formed part of, a race which had beliefs similar to those of the Persians ; such beliefs are not readily adopted by strangers ; they belong to a race. And further, this practice is in strange contrast to the trussing and tying of the body elsewhere, which is done, as the black say, to prevent the spirit of the deceased from wandering in the night from its bed, and disturbing the living and doing them harm ; for the spirit of the dead is malevolent for a long time after death. The J V DEATH AND BUEIAL. 81 roasting of a dead body over a fire seems to us a shainefiil tiling.

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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