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ghosts in Queensland, Australia

YEAR
1861
PLACE
Queensland
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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ghosts in Queensland, Australia

re looking on. Suddenly, from imder a sheet of bark darted a man with his body whitened by pipeclay, his head and face coloured with lines of red and yellow, and a tufk of feathers fixed by means of a stick two feet above the crown of his head. He stood twenty minutes perfectly still, gazing upward…

Record ID
3,726
Year
1,861
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3726
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Queensland, Australia; John Dunmore Lang
Published
1861
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghosts
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
Queensland (QLD): B
State or territory
QLD
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re looking on. Suddenly, from imder a sheet of bark darted a man with his body whitened by pipeclay, his head and face coloured with lines of red and yellow, and a tufk of feathers fixed by means of a stick two feet above the crown of his head. He stood twenty minutes perfectly still, gazing upwards. An aboriginal who stood by told me he was looking for the ghosts of dead men. At last he began to mov0 Very slowly, and soon rushed to and fro at full speed, flourishing a branch lus if to drive away some foes invisible to us. When I thought his pantomime must be almost over, ten more, similarly adorned, suddenly appeared frotii.

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