RECORD ID

3651

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

for no body is put in it ; this they do, the blacks say, " to cheat the Kruben." The ' Kiuben' is a malevolent spirit that wanders about at night, and carries ofE little children from the camp, and punishes those men who are so wicked- as to break any of the tribal laws of restriction ; and " cheating the Kruben" seems to imply that he tears and devours the spirit of the dead, and perhaps their bodies too. Th f}h f '^^® tribes also believe that, after a man's death, his spirit ^ ^* ' wanders about, revisits the grave, interviews the spirits of its. living friends in dreams, eats up the remains of food left lying about, and warms.

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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