RECORD ID

3653

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

, 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 itself at the night fires. Thus, when Buckley was seen sitting on a grave, feeble from want of food, and with a broken spear in his hand, he was naturally regarded as the spirit of the deceased black man come back to ' visit his body, and was welcomed by the tribule as one oi themselves. Something analogous to all this is found among the blacks of Lower Guinea.. When a man dies there, they ascribe his decease to the enchantments of aa enemy. At.

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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