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  1. The Chinaman's Ghost in Joe Wilson and His Mates#21361901 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsto to- night,' said Dave. * But to-morrow she'll bring the neighbourhood down on us.' 'And she's enough, without the neighbourhood,* reflected Pinter. Some time after dark they returned cautiously, reconnoitred their ca…
  2. The Ghost of Mary's Sacrifice in Joe Wilson and His Mates#21351901 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsow if Mary had a comfortable buggy, she A DOUBLE BUGGY AT LAHEY'S CREEK. I37 could drive in with the children oftener. Then she wouldn't feel the loneliness so much.' I said 'Good night' then and turned in. There was no…
  3. The Ghost of Mary's Sacrifice in Joe Wilson and His Mates#21341901 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsbecause Of the nun who believed in me. • • • « • • ••• • •• • • CONTENTS. PREFATORY VERSES — THE AUTHOR'S FAREWELL TO THE BUSHMEN ...... PART I. PACI JOK WILSONS COURTSHIP . BRIGHTEN'S SISTER-IN-LAW 'WATER THEM GERANIUM…
  4. 1901 - R. H. Mathews Article#6891901 / Australian Yowie Research / NSW / Hairy Humanoid and Wild-Person AccountsPublic AYR report page for 1901 - R. H. Mathews Article. Location cue from public page title/path: New South Wales, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: H. Mathews, MS notebook no.5: "Thurga & Jirringan La…
  5. phantom in Babes in the Bush#26501900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsons gird the sphere, We know their time and place, but thou, Whence art thou, Child of Light, And what thy mission here? Like meteor stars that stream Adown the dark obscure, Didst thou descend from angel homes, To bles…
  6. spirit in Babes in the Bush#26471900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsresumed. Toil and strife, privation and poverty, labour and luck, all the contending forces of life are hushed as in a trance. As in hibernation, the physical and mental attributes appear to rally, to recruit fresh stor…
  7. ghost in Babes in the Bush#26441900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsut I have an uncanny feeling, as Mrs. Teviot would say, that I cannot account for. If there was a ghost possible in a land without previous occupation, I should swear that one was near us this minute.’ ‘Do you believe i…
  8. phantom in Babes in the Bush#26431900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationserstand my position, I feel sure.’ He rode forward with a more upright seat, a firmer hand upon his bridle-rein, and that stern lighting of the eyes that may be seen when, and when only— Bridle-reins are gathered up, An…
  9. phantom in Babes in the Bush#26421900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsm Adown the dark obscure, Didst thou descend from angel homes, To bless with angel joys Abodes less bright and pure? Thy beauty and thy love May mortal transports share, Aspire with quivering wings to reach The spirits…
  10. apparition in Babes in the Bush#26411900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationser knew yer tongue to be false, or I’d dhrive in the ribs of ye. Ha, ye big divil!’ he screamed, ‘ye’re there afther all; ’twas a bould trick of ye to hide in that stone gunya. Ye nearly skivered that gay boy from the o…
  11. apparition in Babes in the Bush#26401900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationss admirers were dumb; his opponents jubilant. It is the way of the world. ‘Where’s your seven to four now, Mr. Hampden?’ said the youthful partisan. ‘Possibly quite safe; never be quite certain till the numbers are up.…
  12. apparition in Babes in the Bush#26391900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsng fence was too much for him; thought Bob was sending him along too fast. Deuced uncertain brute; not the real thing; never could stay; nothing like the old Whisker and Camerton strain. Here comes Bargo! By Jove! Hurra…
  13. ghost in Babes in the Bush#26381900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and AdaptationsO’More, as they met on one of their rounds by a watch-fire, ‘that this night would never come to an end. What possesses me I can’t think, but I have an uncanny feeling, as Mrs. Teviot would say, that I cannot account fo…
  14. ghost in Babes in the Bush#26371900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsmurmured and rippled through the night-hush, plainly audible in the oppressive silence. ‘One would think,’ said Argyll to O’More, as they met on one of their rounds by a watch-fire, ‘that this night would never come to…
  15. ghosts in Babes in the Bush#26361900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsave everything of our own in a few years if we are patient,’ said Wilfred; ‘and you damsels don’t want trips to watering-places, and so on. This life is better than Boulogne, or the Channel Islands, though it may be a t…
  16. ghosts in Babes in the Bush#26351900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsbling formerly tenanted by many a gallant steed in the old extravagant days of the colony, when unstinted hospitality and claret had been the proverbial rule at Warbrok. ‘Oh dear!’ exclaimed Annabel from her chair, ‘wha…
  17. ghosts in Babes in the Bush#26341900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationspect opened the creaking hall door, and casting a searching glance at Mr. R. Evans, made the strangers welcome. ‘I’m sure I’m very glad to see you, my lady,’ said she, bobbing an antiquated curtsey, ‘and you, sir, and t…
  18. devil in Over the Sliprails#25111900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsmatch for Redmond than the Oracle was, so the thing looked fair enough--at first sight. “Redmond had his mate, Duigan, and one or two others of the rough gang that used to terrorise the fields round there in the roaring…
  19. devil in Over the Sliprails#25101900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsand goanna by preference--and died out, one by one, as blacks do when brought within the ever widening circle of civilisation. Jimmie moved promptly after each death, and left the evil one in possession, and built anoth…
  20. devil in Over the Sliprails#25091900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptations, even if it had been possible to lay Mary out afterwards; so they had to let her be buried as she was, with black and white obsequies. And we've got no interest in believing that she did not “jump up white woman” long…
  21. devil in Over the Sliprails#25081900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsity fly-blisters and country papers sent him up to edit the 'Advertiser' at two quid a week. He drank again, and no wonder--you don't know what it is to run a 'Geebung Advocate' or 'Mudgee Budgee Chronicle', and live th…
  22. spirit in Over the Sliprails#25071900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsch things--and was too sarcastic in his progress committee, town council, and toady reception reports. The Doctor had a hawk's nose, pointed grizzled beard and moustache, and steely-grey eyes with a haunted look in them…
  23. spirit in Over the Sliprails#25061900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsuck a stage attitude--her right arm thrown out and the forefinger pointing rigidly, and rather crookedly, towards the door. “Leave the room!” she snapped at Danny. “Leave the room! How dare you talk like that before me-…
  24. spirit in Over the Sliprails#25051900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsrly colourless. She was one of those selfishly sensual women--thin lips, and hard, almost vacant grey eyes; no thought of anything but her own pleasures, none for the man's. Some shearers would roughly call her “a squat…
  25. haunted in Over the Sliprails#25041900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationss of the local loafers, who congregate and watch the proceedings with great interest and approval. The crew pitch tents, and set to work on the hull, which looks like a big, rough shallow box. . . . . . We once travelle…
  26. haunted in Over the Sliprails#25031900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationstoo gloomy and impatient over little things to be popular. Jack Drew talked too straight in the paper, and in spite of his proprietors--about pub spieling and such things--and was too sarcastic in his progress committee…
  27. ghosts in Over the Sliprails#25021900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationse ran through the trees towards the foot of Long Gully. Bob and his mate followed; but, being unacquainted with the locality, they lost her. She ran to the edge of a granite cliff on the higher side of the deepest of th…
  28. ghost in Over the Sliprails#25011900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationss on her knees and her face in her hands. “Why--what the dev--who are you?” The girl raised a white desperate face to him. It was Mary Wylie. “My father and--and the woman--they're drinking--they turned me out! they tur…
  29. ghost in Over the Sliprails#25001900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsout and keep cool for another hour, and you'll feel the difference.” He sat down again on the three-legged stool, folded his arms, with his elbows on his knees, drew a long breath, and blinked at the clay floor for a wh…
  30. ghosts in Over the Sliprails#24991900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationseek, with his face like note-paper where the blood hadn't dried on it, and an old pistol in his hand--that he'd used, they said, to shoot Cossacks from horseback when he was a young dude fighting in the bush in Poland.”…
  31. ghost in Over the Sliprails#24981900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsin attendance and the other bright stars waned, and he entered the timber and tramped through it to the “cleared road”, which stretched far and wide for twenty miles before him, with ghostly little dust-clouds at short…
  32. ghost in Over the Sliprails#24971900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsver the road, away from the place, like a thief. He struck across the plain, and tramped on, hour after hour, mile after mile, till the bright moon went down with a bright star in attendance and the other bright stars w…
  33. Dave in On the Track#21711900 / Project Gutenberg / Spirit-Person Narrativesdo; but, unlike women, he was mostly wrong. He was an old chum and mate of Andy's who had always liked, admired, and trusted him. But now, to his helpless surprise, Andy went on scraping the earth from the surface with…
  34. Dave in On the Track#21701900 / Project Gutenberg / Spirit-Person Narrativesfew shovelfuls below the surface, as some do. He was ramming the last layer of clay when a cloud of white dust came along the road, paused, and drifted or poured off into the scrub, leaving long Dave Bentley, the horse-…
  35. Dave in On the Track#21691900 / Project Gutenberg / Spirit-Person Narrativesmind; and evidently not succeeding--for the last two panels were out of line. He was ramming a post--Andy rammed honestly, from the bottom of the hole, not the last few shovelfuls below the surface, as some do. He was r…
  36. Dave in On the Track#21681900 / Project Gutenberg / Spirit-Person Narrativesrors have been corrected after being confirmed.] Preface Of the stories in this volume many have already appeared in (various periodicals), while several now appear in print for the first time. H. L. Sydney, March 17th,…
  37. spirit in On the Track#21671900 / Project Gutenberg / Spirit-Person Narrativesith big families to keep, and cut us off in the bloom of all our wisdom. You might get into trouble, and, in that case, I'd be bound to leave you there, on principle; or I might get into trouble, and you wouldn't have t…
  38. haunted in On the Track#21661900 / Project Gutenberg / Spirit-Person Narrativeshappened to be alive by accident. He was very restless in the house, and never took his hat off. There was a dress and a woman's old hat hanging on the wall near the door, but they looked as if they might have been hang…
  39. haunted in On the Track#21651900 / Project Gutenberg / Spirit-Person Narrativesrecollection of a circus on Gulgong in the roaring days, more than twenty years ago, and a woman (to my child-fancy a being from another world) standing in the middle of the ring, singing: Out in the cold world--out in…
  40. ghost in On the Track#21641900 / Project Gutenberg / Ghost and Apparition Accountshad died in child-birth the first year on the selection--“she was a fine girl he'd heered!” He told me the story as the old man had told it, and in pretty well the same words, even to giving it as his opinion that it wa…
  41. ghost in On the Track#21631900 / Project Gutenberg / Ghost and Apparition Accountsein' dry as a bone after gettin' caught in that storm; but they only laughed and said it was a dry place where Dave went to. I talked and argued about it until the chaps began to tap their foreheads and wink--then I lef…
  42. ghost in On the Track#21621900 / Project Gutenberg / Ghost and Apparition Accountsere was no one heard of Dave, and the chaps reckoned I must have been drunk, or seen his ghost. “It didn't seem all right at all--it worried me a lot. I couldn't make out how Dave kept dry; and the horse and saddle and…
  43. ghost in On the Track#21611900 / Project Gutenberg / Ghost and Apparition Accountsbelow his elbows and a tail that scarcely reached his waist behind.) And his hair seemed dark and lank, instead of bein' sandy and stickin' out like an old fibre brush, as it used ter. And then I thought his voice sound…
  44. Medicine man in Magic#41971899 / Internet Sacred Text Archive / NT / Descriptive Belief RecordsThe victim at once becomes insensible, and remains so for some little time, and, when consciousness is once more recovered, suffers great pain. In the case of an old woman death is sure to follow, but in that of a man o…
  45. Medicine man in Magic#41881899 / Internet Sacred Text Archive / NT / Descriptive Belief RecordsAnother form of Kurdaitcha which has not the sanction of the council of elders but is said to be the more favourite method of procedure is for the Kurdaitcha to go alone without the medicine man accompanying him.
  46. Kurdaitcha in Magic#41861899 / Internet Sacred Text Archive / NT / Descriptive Belief RecordsBoth medicine man and Kurdaitcha have meanwhile put the sacred Churinga between their teeth and when they are thus armed the spear cannot fail to strike the victim.
  47. Kurdaitcha in Magic#41851899 / Internet Sacred Text Archive / NT / Spirit-Person NarrativesLike the man who is on any particular occasion acting as a Kurdaitcha, the doctor himself must be an Ertwa Kurdaitcha who has qualified by passing through the ordeal by fire in which the toe is dislocated. Both men carr…
  48. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39181899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Retellings and AdaptationsEar Koinaratingana Shore (Sandy-beach) Koiule, Ko-ule, Tug (to, at a rope) Kocha ... ... Swan Koka ... ... Red, blood, ruddy cheeks Kokanalia ... Ovf\^sm3\\{Anthene Boohook) Kokata ... Howl (in distress like a dog) Koka…
  49. witch in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39171899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Retellings and Adaptationsee Ditto sea- side {Acacia Wave [marititna) Weak Weed Weep Well (spring) Wet (rainy) Whale What ? what's that ? When and where Whisper, speak low, let nobody hear WMiistle White Whiz (like a ball, etc.) Whore, fornicatr…
  50. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39161899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesrina Caul Takra, tungal6 Hither and thither Rurga Sea- weed ( dried ) Takramunena ... Travel which they eat af- Takuiat6 Woe's me ! ah me ! ter having soften- Takumuna Rise ed it in the fire Talaratai . Weed Ruwa ... Sa…
  51. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39151899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narratives-kuonga Reliquama Relipiana Reloie tonyer6 ... Reminy6 'Remin6 ... Rena Float (to) Wrist Row (a long one) Punk Gannet {Sula Aus- tralis) Devil Kangaroo, Joey (young) Sulky Sultry Serpent (black snake) Oyster Wombat (Pha…
  52. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39141899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesna lia Rawinuina Rebkarana Rediarapa Redikata Redpa . . . Regaa . . . Regana tiana ... Reglitia, reglipu- na regulitia Regoula... Reigina ... Reigina loanina Rekuna ... Relbia ... Relbiak ... Relbui ... Relinula lia Rel…
  53. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39131899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narratives. Porutie ... Porutie-maiek ... Posereniena PotaigroT nara-na Potalugie Potha malitie, or 111 alia Grass Scales (of fish) Add to or put Boy (large child) Wing Peak (a hill) Tor (a peaked hill) Hill (little one) Hill (mo…
  54. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39121899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person NarrativesT 6ol W C • . • ... Pebleganana Pegara ... Pegara ... x^cKai A ... ... Pegarugarua Pegi, Pegui Pegrete wergo ... Peyerena Peindriga Pelanipune Pelgana ... Pelilogiieni Pel vera ta x^eiin ... ... Pena (wibra) ... Penamab…
  55. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39111899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesargest) Crazy (cranky) Crevice or fissure in rocks Creek Cross Crow Cry (weep) Ditto Cut (to) [guage) Cape Portland (Ian- Creak (from fri(flion of limbs of trees) Dance Dark Daughter Daylight Dead Deaf Deep (water) Demo…
  56. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39101899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesye (D) tipera (M) canglonao (P), quangloa (L) terragoma (D) wallantanalinany (D) walana-lanala (M) legunia (D) cateena (D) renorari (P) nubena (R) powena (D) kella-katena (M), nanapatta (D), lina (D) canlaride (L) targa…
  57. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39091899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesn died. The men formed a pile of logs, and at sunset placed the body of the woman upon it, supported by small wood, which concealed her, and formed a pyramid. They then placed their sick people around the pile, at a sho…
  58. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39081899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesled with pain.' " And Backhouse ends up this subjedl with : ** Lately one of the women died. The men formed a pile of logs, and at sunset, placed the body of the woman upon it. They then placed their sick people around…
  59. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39071899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativese, and "on inquiring what killed them all, an aged man, one of their dodlors, replied, *The devil.' I desired to know how he managed. The women began to cough violently, to show me how they were affecfted. The old do<5^…
  60. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39061899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeses as large as a shilling, lay by a fire, and was literally wallowing in ashes, having covered himself with them from head to foot. This, we are informed, was one of their common remedies" (p. 90). He also mentions (p.…
  61. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39051899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesin their relucSlance to travel in the dark .(p. 106). Backhouse, who may be considered, with Dove, as a person likely to have made good inquiries as to their beliefs, says (pp. 181- 182) : " These people have received a…
  62. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39041899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesarifications. — Rheumatism. — Inflammations. — Leprosy. — Snake-bites. — Bones worn as charms. — Tri- angle of bones against headache. — Stones for causing and counteracting evil. — Mesembryantkemum eqiiilaUraU, — Women…
  63. spirits in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39031899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativest of animals. Religion. — Belief in Supreme Being doubtful.— Good and bad spirit. — Inferior spirits. — Women's religious chant. — The moon not a deity.— rPoly- theism. — Bones as charms. Immortality of soul. — Name app…
  64. spirits in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39021899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narratives, Tasm. Jour. IIL pp. 241-2. Launceston and London, 1849. Gaimard, Paul v. Dumont D'Urville. Garnot v. Leeson. Gervais, Paul. Zoologie et Paleontologie G6n6rales, Paris, 1876, 4to. In Vol. ii. (Sec. Ser.) pp. 1-8, the f…
  65. devil in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39011899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativese tree) Naboininele . Cat (small native) Mungana Urine Nabowla . River Mungana paoniak Foolish (or fool) Nala . Ground Mungananena ... Parakeet (Euphema Nairana... Eagle chfysostome) Nagada Man Munganemoi ... Rub (rub i…
  66. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#39001899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person NarrativesMiengi ... Miengkonenecha- na Miengotik Battle Fight Red juice of a plant (sap) Sap Nettle Weak Fall (to) Round, like a ball Hold your tongue, be patient, by and Wait [bye Fever Cease (to) Enough (sufficient) Battle Fev…
  67. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38991899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeswayedee Pallawah proina Lowa proina Nanghabee or Nan- ghamee Tuggety proibee Lowinne Tianah XXVI H. LING ROTH. — ABORIGINES OP TASMANIA. Vocabulary • of Dialects of Aboriginal Tribes of Tasmania. English. iTribes about…
  68. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38981899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesdcrapperner nS&ndrarner p56rnethenar M, NORMAN S VOCABULARY. Climb, to Clothing Cockatoo Cold Come Conveyance Convalescent Copulate ... Cramp Crow Cry, to Cuts in skin (ornamental) Cut, to Dead Deception ... Descend, to…
  69. spirits in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38971899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesform of the cranium, while differing little in its propor- tions from the general type, is very appreciably softened down, but within relatively narrow limits. The specimen taken as the basis of the description of the T…
  70. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38961899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesthe most popular songs of the hostile Aborigines consisted in relation of the outrages committed by Blacks on the Whites, in which they repeat in minute details their predatory proceedings, such as taking away fire- arm…
  71. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38951899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesk, leaves, etc. They do not bury them in the ground. I have never been able to ascertain that they put either weapons or food in the tree with the dead." The same author continues (p. 418): " During the whole of the fir…
  72. spirits in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38941899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesren to eat the sugar we gave them, being very careful to take it out of * Castor and Pollux. t The revival of apparently dead human beings by means of the bites of ants is not uncommon in Australian Legends, 86 H. LING…
  73. spirits in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38931899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesones that were flat, oval, and about two inches wide, and marked in various dire(5\ions with black and red lines. These we learned represented absent friends, and one larger than the rest, a corpulent .woman on Flinders…
  74. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38921899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeso pursue the chase with unwearied ardour and unfailing success, and to enjoy in vast abundance and with unsated appetite the pleasures which they courted on earth, were the chief elements which entered into their pictur…
  75. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38911899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeshe same word to express thunder and lightning" (J A.I. p. i8). Davies (p. 417) thought it hard to believe that the natives have ^* no idea of a future state, . . . and yet from every enquiry, both from themselves and fr…
  76. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38901899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeses England). He tried to convince them that England was not the home of the departed, but did not argue them out of their belief. This simple reply shows that they quite believed in a life . . . after the destru(5lion o…
  77. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38891899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeswith Europeans, distinctly entertained the idea of immortality as regarded RELIGION. 55 the soul or spirit of man ; their legends proved also their belief in a host of malevolent spirits and mischievous goblins, whose a…
  78. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38881899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesr of the bones of the deceased as a charm against adversity." The other account of Milligan, taken from Papers Roy. Soc. of V. D. Land for Jan. 1855, is as follows: "Milligan said he had ascertained that the Tasmanian a…
  79. spirits in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38871899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesreason for his so thinking. The natives were greatly afraid of the dark, and would naturally choose bright moonlight for a dance. (See Dances.) Milligan gives us two versions of his experience regarding their religious…
  80. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38861899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesdered the moon a deity (pp. 48-49) : ** Amongst the neighbouring tribes of aborigines it was customary to meet at some time-honoured trysting-place at every full moon, a period regarded by them with most profound revere…
  81. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38851899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesrds 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…
  82. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38841899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeshey may be brought back in health and safety." This statement regarding a belief in a good and bad spirit looks very much like an introduced religion ; Mr. Leigh was a missionary. Speaking of the aborigines of both N. S…
  83. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38831899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeso the good spirit they attribute everything good, and to the evil spirit everything hurtful. When any of the family are on a journey they are accustomed to sing to the good spirit for the purpose of securing his prote(5…
  84. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38821899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesn are very obscure. However, they believe in two spirits ; one, who, they say, governs the day, and whom they call the good spirit; the other governs the night, and him they think evil. To the good spirit they attribute…
  85. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38811899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesother 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 obscure. However, they believe in two spirits ;…
  86. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38801899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesay 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 attributi…
  87. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38791899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesbelieve 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 o…
  88. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38781899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesing adls of kindness, and against whom they had up to that moment suffered no indication of hostility to betray itself. . . . These adts of violence on the part of the natives are generally to be regarded, not as retali…
  89. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38771899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativestion, without some personal danger " (Burnet, p. 34). ** They [the natives] were sacrificed in many instances to momentary caprice or anger, . . . and they sustained the most unjustifiable treatment in defending themsel…
  90. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38761899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narratives{ibid.f pp. 15-16). In a Government Notice, mention is made of the ** series of outrages " perpetrated by the aborigines, and the ** wanton barbarity in which they have indulged by the commission of murder in return for…
  91. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38751899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativeshas in his possession a very well written letter of Geo. Walter Arthur, of the Ben Lomond tribe, perhaps the aborigine who had advanced furthest of any in civilization. They also improved in the art of war during their…
  92. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38741899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesperate characfters, who have absconded into the woods, have no doubt committed the greatest outrages upon the Natives, and these ignorant beings, incapable of discrimination, are now filled with enmity and revenge again…
  93. spirit in The Aborigines of Tasmania#38731899 / Internet Archive / TAS / Spirit-Person Narrativesf a European song. — Rapid singing.— Indifference to a musical performance.— A violin solo and its results.— Native Singing.— Its correctness.— Its sweetness — Bonwick's descrip- tion.— A musical corrobory Kangaroo rugs…
  94. ghost in Eaglehawk and Crow#36101899 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsbanner bibi ■«t ley, Q. 1 Palmer R., Q. . oomar ogno oyong CoenR.,Q. moi ngoi tane Mapoon R., Q. moi tedi tane (iudang, C. York yoko — — Torres ' K'owrarega, mue — ikai Strait 1 Torres St. Saibai /., N. G. moi nguki ika…
  95. spirits in Eaglehawk and Crow#36091899 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsn the tribe with which I was best acquainted, while the blacks had a term for ghost and believed that there were departed spirits who were sometimes to be seen among the foliage, individual men would tell you upon inqui…
  96. ghosts in Eaglehawk and Crow#36081899 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountso duty for the crashing music indispensable to finish off most of the compositions in the Hiurtovre of civilisation. I CHAPTER XI SORCERY, SUPERSTITIONS, RELIGION Sorcery, superstitions, religion — Tiie bane of sorcery—…
  97. ghosts in Eaglehawk and Crow#36071899 / Internet Archive / Ghost and Apparition Accountsia — Sample of work at Billiminah Creek — Rock-carvings near Sydney — The Australian muse— Corroborees Pp. 125 — 141 CHAPTER XI SORCERY, SUPERSTITIONS, RELIGION Sorcery, superstitions, religion — The bane of sorcery — N…
  98. spirit in Eaglehawk and Crow#36061899 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativesative words for, 237 Death ascribed to Sorcery, 123 Debati Hasi Asi, the Sumatran deity, 131 Deccan, Ancient inhabitants of, identical with Australians, 4 Deceased persons, Names of, not pronounced, 144 Deities, Native,…
  99. spirit in Eaglehawk and Crow#36051899 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativesal Appearance of, 9; the colour of, u ; the hair. /?;!</. ; not Atheistic, 147 ; Physiological Contrast between Tasmanians and, 9 Avoca River dialect, Vocabulary of, 208-272 Awabakal dialect, Vocabulary of, 208-272 Axes…
  100. spirit in Eaglehawk and Crow#36041899 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativesralia have an intensely interesting myth about the ' Alcheringa,' * the earliest period to which their traditions refer. " At the very beginning of this there were no true human beings such as now exist but only ' Inape…