RECORD ID

3657

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of New South Wales; John Fraser

AUTHOR

Not specified

. Two male relatives dig the grave. The body is lowered, and a great quantity of banana leaves is laid over it before the earth is filled in. The disembodied spirit is supposed to haunt the scenes of its former life. Cocoa-nuts, bananas, pudding, and other kinds of food are often hung on a tree or stick beside the grave, for the refreshment of the wandering spirit. Sometimes, in the still night a brother shouts out the name of the departed, and tells him, with all the strength of his lung3, " Cocoanuts and bananas are here ; come and take them." m Our indigenes, in the western part of the colony of Victoria,. Soirits *^^^^ ^^^^.

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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