RECORD ID

3928

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages; William Ridley

AUTHOR

Not specified

" (egg-like, nourishing-with-milk.") She has the duty of instructing women ; for they may not see Turramulan on pain of death. And even when mention is made of Turramulan, or of the Bora at which he presides, the women slink away, knowing that it it unlawful for them so much as to hear anything about such matters. 138 TRADITIONS. " Tohi" is the name for the spirit of man ; "bunna" is that part of him which dies. "When the bunna returns to dust the " tohi," may become a wunda. The wunda may enter some other body. "Wicked men are punished by the degradation of their souls. Their " tohi" may be condemned to animate a beast. But the.

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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