RECORD ID

3885

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

rds are (p. 124): "It frequently happens, that the sealers . . . are compelled to leave their [native] women for several days together. On these occasions, these affec- tionate creatures have a kind of song, which they chant to their imaginary deity, of whom, however, they have but a very indistindl notion ; and who, they say, presides over the day, an evil spirit or demon making his appearance in the night. This deity, whomsoever it is, they believe to be the giver of everything good, nor do they appear to acknowledge any more than one God." But Lloyd, from their attitudes at their corroborries, was inclined to think that they.

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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