RECORD ID

3940

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages; William Ridley

AUTHOR

Not specified

f wickedness and folly that such an unnatural custom could be introduced, even among a savage people. It is still more mysterious that the thought of such an act could be suggested in vision to the holy prophet Ezekiel. In the Aborigines it seems to be one mode — the most degrading mode that ever entered the mind of man — of carrying out the impulses of the spirit, common in all ages, which animated the pagan stoic and the christian ascetic. By the flogging and the knocking out of the tooth, the young men are taught to glory in suffering anguish, and to believe that it is manly to endure pain without a cry or a groan. On the same.

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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