RECORD ID

3879

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of Tasmania; H. Ling Roth, Marion E. Butler, James Backhouse Walker, J. G. Garson, E. B. Tylor

AUTHOR

Not specified

believe that they possess any sort of creed, or trouble themselves about anything in the form of religion. They certainly have no religious rites" (quoted by Bonwick p. 72). Bishop Nixon says : " No trace can be found of the existence of any religious usage, or even sentiment, amongst them, unless, indeed, we may call by that name, the dread of a malignant spirit, which seems to have been their predominant, if not their only, feeling on the subjedt." On the other hand, most writers who touch on this subjedl agree in attributing some idea of religion to them. Thus, Leigh says (III. p. 243) : "Their notions of religion are very.

Terminology belongs to the cited public source. Its presence in the archive is not verification of the reported claim.

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