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- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1542elt. It was the first time she had ever used that name when addressing him, and her voice sounded so inexpressibly sweet that, without even glancing at Bridget, he turned and took the girl in his arms and kissed her, a…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1541heard before. But he persevered; and, bringing a couple of men from the township fifty miles away, set them to work. Dead Finish was situated at the extreme head of one of those short Australian coastal rivers whose exi…
- fairy in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1540e of it, I seen—I seen—’ but here he paused dead for want of a vocabulary. ‘Well, thick-head, an’ wot was it ye seed—yer own hugly shadder, I s’pose?’ said Mrs Brown, as she caught up and slapped the baby playing with a…
- witch in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1539, besides being chief constable of his fellows, he had been a favourite at headquarters, had borne royalty itself, and was even named after Governor Gregory. Therefore, hungry as he was, Greg hesitated about demolishing…
- devil in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1538lin’ o’ oor money! An’ a’ for a wheen dukes an’ a crackit heid! Na, na! Tell the skirlin’ fule I’ll gie him fifty dollars, and that’s mair than a’ his gear’s worth. I’ll gang to preesin suner than pay as muckle siller a…
- devil in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1537replied M‘Cracken, ‘airmed maistley wi’ spears, an’ skeens, sic, as I’ve been tauld, bein’ their usual weepons.’ The other chuckled hoarsely as he said, ‘If she’s a pireet, she’ll hae at the vera leest a guid twa ’unner…
- devil in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1536the boys, had rushed on deck. ‘Come here, four hands, and clear away the life-boat.’ ‘Don’t be a fool, Mr Sparkes!’ shouted the skipper, still struggling with the widow, who had got one hand in his long beard and was pu…
- devil in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1535ackfeller shearer. I had a pitch with him the night afore an’ he reckons as how he’d just cut out ov a big shed on the Marthaguy. So I sez to myself, “You’re good enough, ole chap, fer a fiver, ennyhow.”’ ‘What’s that g…
- spirit in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1534by sheets of galvanised iron, supported on trestles, waits, manuscript in hand, still in a rather unsettled state of mind, the Reverend Spicer. The place is dimly lit by flaring candles and slush lamps, and is crowded b…
- spirit in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1533oed the ever-impending crash as the wind gradually freshened. It was a trying experience, even for the best prepared amongst us, this comparatively sudden transit from the tropics to twenty degrees below freezing point;…
- spirit in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1532Aberdeen, and habitually comes ashore in latitude 0 with a Glengarry cap on, no umbrella, and naked feet, is not a being to stand argument. One night the moon rose full, and right aft. She rose, too, with a big black sp…
- spirit in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1531th the death-film. And he lay there and watched me, staring fixedly. It was a bright sunshiny day, the birds were singing cheerily about us, and the wash of the sea was very faint. From the expression on his face I thou…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1530n the morning. ‘There goes your aged friend,’ said a voice at my shoulder, which made me start with the unexpectedness of it. ‘Too hot and close to sleep,’ explained Treloar. ‘Come out for a breath of air.’ ‘Let’s sheph…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1529Rainbow weren’t the chaps to leave much behind ’em. Leastways’—he quickly added, seeing his mistake, ‘so I’ve heerd say.’ Treloar gave me a look which meant ‘How now?’ but neither of us took further notice. ‘I’ve heard…
- ghost in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1528the tomb! Why ’tis, in some sort, the story of our corporal life and death! ‘“Over the Mountains of the Moon, Down the Vale of Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,” the shade replied, “For there lies El Dorado.” Behold, my friend…
- ghost in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1527stood stock still, fascinated by the spectacle. The female ones shrieked, and a couple fainted. But louder and higher than any of them shrieked the widow, who had got both arms around the skipper’s neck, to which she hu…
- ghost in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1526here were no ‘intermediates,’ no subdivisions. A very good table was kept, and the ‘dog-basket’ and ‘menavelings’ from it alone would have supplied the fo’c’stle twice over. But for these leavings a host of ill-fed, bra…
- ghost in Steve Brown's Bunyip#1525the fire. Her hearth is wide to every gust That gars the dead ash spin— And tide by tide and ’twixt the tides Her sons go out and in. [Out in great mirth that do desire Hazard of trackless ways, In wi’ great peace to wa…
- 1893 (2) - Goulburn Penny Post Article#687Public AYR report page for 1893 (2) - Goulburn Penny Post Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Goulburn, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: Goulburn Evening Penny Post, 31st October 1893 ,…
- 1893 - Goulburn Penny Post Article#686Public AYR report page for 1893 - Goulburn Penny Post Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Goulburn, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: The Goulburn Evening Penny Post, 28th October 1893.
- devil in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3676a. These same Nicobarese use the toes 'for picking up anything, just as our blacks do. But more striking analogies than these are to be found in African regions. Du Chaillu says : — ^** My servant, Ishungui, died. The r…
- wizard in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3675pirits, or of some wicked ' karaji' or wizard, who, at his own will, or hired thereto by others, has, by magic arts, put something into the sick man's body sufi&cient to make him pine away and die. In tbe firm and unive…
- wizard in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3674t compare with this similar practices and desires in aU ages and countries. DEATH AND BUEIAL, 83 Wlierever a tribe inters the dead, after the grave is neatly dug, the body is slung on a long pole borne on the shoulders…
- wizard in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3673on which they may have possessed. So, when an Australian is sick, if the sickness is seen to come from some intelligible cause, such as a cold or a surfeit in eating, the usual native remedies are applied, and the matte…
- wizard in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3672a small hole, and, leaving there what nature casts off, they cover it up again. Even water is strewn over with rushes, lest any one treading on it should be defiled. All this seems to arise from cleanliness ; but there…
- wizard in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3671at his spirit went from him on some errand or other, but he also know^ that it has letumed, and so he does not trouble himself much about that. Even when he is- dying and his spirit has gone, if a friendly wizard is nea…
- wizard in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3670ely arrived ; and, giving magical power- toi the blow, thrust her through and through with his spear. Thus the young- man was safe. Qwestion : Who was this old woman ? Do you give it up ? Well, then, it was a porcupine.…
- wizard in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3669risoner had gone. She hastily repaired her damaged canoe, and crossed, but only to find the young man surrounded by his friends, ready to defend him with their spears. She boldly advanced, heeding not the spears thrown…
- devil in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3668ese are to be found in African regions. Du Chaillu says : — ^** My servant, Ishungui, died. The relatives of the deceased slept one night in his house, as a mark of respect, and then all that remained was to discover th…
- ghosts in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3667or that a leopard has been seen prowling about and that they are afraid. They believe in the transmigration of souls ; some think that after death they become white men ; the soul transmigrates into the bodies of birds…
- ghost in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3666also do the Hottentots. An explanation of this may be got in a belief, shared by many ancient nations, but most developed among tho Hindus, that, when the "^ross body" is laid in the^ave or burned, the soul still lives…
- ghost in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3665s 73 Cooking 55 Corrobboree, the (See Earabari) • - 21 Cromlechs - • - -. 68 D Daily Ufe 58 Death, at 79 „ causes of 78, 85 Decamp 84 Descent, law of 32 Diseases 62 Dogs 65 Dwellings 48 E Education 4 Exogamy 80 F Fire-m…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3664turn from time to time, with other supplies of food. When men and women are slain over a grave, they even believe that their spirits join that of him in whose honour they have been killed. During the season of mourning,…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3663d red spots. From each shoulder, down to his hands, was a white stripe, and one hand was painted quite white." "They fear the spirits of the recently departed ; and, besides placing fur- niture, dress, and food at their…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3662black feathers. His eyelids were painted red, and a red stripe from the nose upwards, divided his forehead in two parts. Another red stripe passed round his head. The face was painted white, and on each side of the mout…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3661the abode of the dead is there. In some parts of Australia, the blacks will not go near a recent grave for a month or so after the interment ; but on the Murray River, near Went- worth,.one or two friends visit the grav…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3660ich make it twice or three timea the length of the body within. The grave is dnly a deep hole, and the corpse is placed therein upright. No earth ig allowed to touch the head, which is protected by timber above it. A mo…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3659no spirits, but' ^ * every person over that age has not only a soul or spirit of natural life, but also another spirit which takes a visible but undefined form after death ; it frequents the dead man's grave for a time,…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3658rave, for the refreshment of the wandering spirit. Sometimes, in the still night a brother shouts out the name of the departed, and tells him, with all the strength of his lung3, " Cocoanuts and bananas are here ; come…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3657. Two male relatives dig the grave. The body is lowered, and a great quantity of banana leaves is laid over it before the earth is filled in. The disembodied spirit is supposed to haunt the scenes of its former life. Co…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3656e deceased within a reasonable distance attend. There is a great wailing kept up by the women within the enclosure where the body lies. The men simply look in for a minute or two to cry, and then retire. Two male relati…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3655itnessed. The man's name was nevei: afterwards mentioned, nor his grave visited, by any of the tribe." Cause of In the New Hebrides islands, similar beliefs and customs exist. Death. A friend, writing to me from Epi the…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3654logous to all this is found among the blacks of Lower Guinea.. When a man dies there, they ascribe his decease to the enchantments of aa enemy. At the grave they ask the corpse to tell who it was that took away his life…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3653, after a man's death, his spirit ^ ^* ' wanders about, revisits the grave, interviews the spirits of its. living friends in dreams, eats up the remains of food left lying about, and warms itself at the night fires. Thu…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3652from the camp, and punishes those men who are so wicked- as to break any of the tribal laws of restriction ; and " cheating the Kruben" seems to imply that he tears and devours the spirit of the dead, and perhaps their…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3651for no body is put in it ; this they do, the blacks say, " to cheat the Kruben." The ' Kiuben' is a malevolent spirit that wanders about at night, and carries ofE little children from the camp, and punishes those men wh…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3650shaped like a club, and painted red ; their tops are covered with fine white down from the cockatoo. In. the Kamalarai country, not only is the bark of the adjacent trees marked with devices, but another grave is dug ne…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3649^aid, bury in any soft ground which may happen to be near, but some tribes have regular burying-grounds which have been used for generations, and are considered sacred. To these a corpse will be brought from a distance…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3648r with red and white spots and put pipeclay on their heads. In Fiji also, the man who has dug the grave of a chief is unclean for a year. In South Australia, the" corpse is rubbed over with red ochre ; and the same is d…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3647— evidently to drive out the evil spirits — and after the grave is closed, a fire is kept burning on the surface — evidently to drive 82 THE ABORIGINES OP NEW SOUTH WALES. off the evil spirits at nigbt ; if the corpse i…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3646. A mystic egg also figures largely in some of the most ancient cosmogonies. In Northern Queensland, when the body is about to be buried, a fire is first kindled in the grave — evidently to drive out the evil spirits —…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3645fire' or * water.' And among the Khasias — a hill tribe of^ north-eastern India — an illness is exorcised by the breaking of eggs, among other methods. A mystic egg also figures largely in some of the most ancient cosmo…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3644that these white eggs are put there as charms against the approach of evil spirits ; for Layard savs that, " in the court around the tomb of the founder of the Yezidis,, there is a small recess filled with balls of clay…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3643r several nights, to prevent the evil spirits from carrying off the body. On the Darling Eiver, a mound is raised ov^r the grave and a low fence of brushwood put round it, and, just inside the fence and around the grave…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3642ular hole about three feet deep and two feet in diameter, as much as will hold the body ; the bottom of the grave i? then lined with * ti '-tree bark, the body is laid thereon, and pieces of stringy- bark are placed all…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3641f the Persians ; such beliefs are not readily adopted by strangers ; they belong to a race. And further, this practice is in strange contrast to the trussing and tying of the body elsewhere, which is done, as the black…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3640it that these ancestors were once in contact with, or rather formed part of, a race which had beliefs similar to those of the Persians ; such beliefs are not readily adopted by strangers ; they belong to a race. And fur…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3639witness the ceremony, as I had never seen a Durial." The son's explanation that he was keeping the body of his father warm is only part of the truth ; the blacks believe that an evil spirit, whom they call ' dibble- dib…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3638warm. How long he supported his deceased parent thus, I do not know ; for, haying ascertained when and where the burying was to be, I left the camp, intending to be present to witness the ceremony, as I had never seen a…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3637night, has Eut a round stone in his body, where the lump is, with the intention that e may fall ill and die ; then, in any of these circumstances the * kardji' is sent for, to come and remove the evil, or to counteract…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3636Those who have read Lenormant on Magic in Chaldsea know that this is a ver}r old belief, and that it produced there an elaborate ritual as against evil spirits, and for protection from them. In our country the terror of…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3635ver they encamp. Our blackfellows have not reached the pastoral stas^e, and yet they are wanderers. If they settle down at any spot for a few days, the food they get there by hunting or from roots may soon be exhausted,…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3634stache. I suppose that a black man thought that this adjunct to his nose-tip improved his personal appearance or made him look terrible in battle ; but, as in the case of the body scars, I believe there is some relio^io…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3633made on his breast. At all events, they may serve the same purpose as the blazon on a seaman's arms or breast, and be useful in identifying a man's body if he has been disfigured on the field of battle ; or, like the kn…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3632ppy, if their environment permit. This is also one of the characteristics of the African negroes ; for it seems natural for them to be in good spirits, and this happy temperament promotes their vitality. Our Australian…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3631o ; and if any one of u» were seated at a native camp-fire after dark, and heard the stories that are told there, and saw the merriment and the laughter and the fun, we could not doubt that it is their nature to be happ…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3630. jpyr . In Australia there are only two things to be considered whepi we . .. J, proceed to locate a tribe — its territorial limits and its language. Eeligion cannot be taken as an element in this question, nor tribal…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3629of that clan will harm it ; for, on his death-bed, he may have told his people that henceforth his spirit would live in that animal, and so it is the first of their ancestors. That animal becomes to them a * totem,' aft…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3628, or civil dissension, or a tendency to wander and colonise. The leader of such a sept bears the by-name of 'the lion,' or *the bear,' or *the kangaroo.' On his death that animal lis regarded as his visible representati…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3627an older man. Prom the hour of betrothal, they become mother- in-law and son-in-law, and must avoid each other. They must, if possible, never see each other. It is hard to account for so remarkable a custom ; but our in…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3626ve, and there they see the likeness of many things with which they are conversant in their daily life — young men dancing a 'karabari' (Orion), and a group of damsels looking at them (the Pleiades), and making music to…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3625ing plantations. He said that we should certainly be able to kill liim the next day, and that, during the night, he and his friends would cele- brate the gorilla dance. ... To the music of three old men, who had their f…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3624e round a sacred fire. An incantation, used by the Chaldaean sorcerers of old, has these words, '*May the God Pire, the hero, dispel their enchantments or spells for the injury of others." An Australian *jin,' going to…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3623d was keenly maintained between the bad and the good ; and, according as the one principle or the other held sway, so did blessings or disasters descend upon nature and upon man. Hence the value MATUEITY. 19 of religion…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3622ty, were distributed throughout nature ; sometimes in union with animate objects, sometimes separately. Existing everywhere, they had both an evil and a good aspect — -at one time favourable, at another unfavourable, co…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3621he washes away the badge of darkness and evil, and assumes the livery of the children of light. This felt subjection to unseen evil and aspirations for deliverance from it in the minds of our native race, is not only na…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3620those who pass throuj»h the Bora paint themselves white at its close. Everywhere in Australia there is the belief that the black man, when he is dead and buried, still lives ; but he is then white. Our indi- ^nes say, ^…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3619an-hating, in the economy of nature (cf. the Persian Ahriman), just as Osiris, the bright and beneficent sun, was an emblem of all that was good. In the Levitical law, the new heifer was a sin-offering for the Israelite…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3618' no') you do that ; that's one of our gods.' " It is not lawEulfor anyone to handle it except those who have been initiated at the Bora. It is made of a piece of thin wood or of the bark of a tree. It is 9 to 12 inches…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3617them by all the celebrants. On the following morning the women are summoned, and, according to custom, they crawl on hands and knees through the first two enclosures into the presence of the chief priest and the elders.…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3616front of them the bodies of men, covered with gashes and blopd, and their bowels protruding ; beyond these is the high priest, sitting alone and looking at the comers with a fixed stare. Stepping over the prostrate bodi…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3615ortant state of manhood. These duties, they are told, consist in obeying their chief, defending their tribe from all enemies, and in conforming to all the customs, and fulfilling all the rites and ceremo- nies of their…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3614uring the novitiate which succeeds initiation, the girls are taught religious dances, the men are instructed in the science of fetich. It is then that they are told that there are certain kinds of food which are forbidd…
- spirit in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3613told me that he was taken into a fetich house, stripped, severely flogged, and plastered with goat dung» this ceremony, like those of masonry, being conducted to the sound of music. Afterwards there came, from behind a…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3612. All women, children, and strangers are warned fro m the spot during the ceremonies, and the novice believes that, if he reveals any of the secrets of the grove, the spirits, knowing his faithlessness and profanity, wi…
- spirits in The Aborigines of New South Wales#3611be best acquainted with the mysteries. These choose suitable places in the woods, and make ready there every appliance which can produce surprise, awe, and chilling fear on the minds of novices. All women, children, and…
- witch in Nevermore#2683ac grass, which rustled wiry and dry in the hoar-frost. The stars burned and scintillated in the dark blue cloudless sky. The low moon rose and stared--redly, weird, and witch-like--upon the solitary woman threading alo…
- wizard in Nevermore#2680dscape, the far-stretching champaign of the park--one of the largest in the county, the winding river, the blue hills, the distant sea. 'What a madman the boy is,' he groaned out, to leave all this for a few hot words--…
- witch in Nevermore#2679forest groves--away through the rocky defiles where the mare's bare hoofs rang from time to time as on metal--away through sedgy morass and water-laden plain--away through the long gray tussac grass, which rustled wiry…
- spirit in Nevermore#2670occasionally impatient of discipline, wild and reckless in their habits, given to occasional brawling, drinking, and dicing, much as were the Royalist soldiery in the days of the first Charles. But, like them, they were…
- ghosts in Nevermore#2667ked in curiously weird cadence, like the ghosts of shipwrecked mariners. Yet no breath of rising wind or gathering tempest stirred the black waveless plain which stretched for so many a mile seaward and lay illimitable…
- apparition in Nevermore#2666e boding signs of storm, Lance did not notice the clatter of hoofs as a woman came at speed along the ravine which lay to the eastward, and reined up her horse within a few yards of his camp. He turned listlessly toward…
- apparition in Nevermore#2665ng lot of nags with them, so you'd better scratch all you know and get there before dark. Who's this cove? Perhaps he'll give us a hand? I must have a pot of tea first, though.' He moved towards the hut door, near which…
- apparition in Nevermore#2664hain which bisects the continent came into view. So sudden was the surprise, so strangely contrasted with all his preconceived ideas of Australian scenery was the presentment of the wondrous white battlements upreared a…
- apparition in Nevermore#2663served yet passionate natures which habitually conceal their deeper feelings, as if jealous of exhibiting the sacred recesses of their hearts to the careless or irreverent. Ice on the surface, they resemble those region…
- ghosts in Nevermore#2662ot stormy. Brooding over all things hung an enshrouding, clinging fog. The lights of the vessels in the bay were invisible until the boats almost ran against their sides, then they appeared like blurred and wavering moo…
- ghost in Nevermore#2661ne in the night, when a dense fog enveloped the mud flats of the bay, the low sandy beach, the thickets of the tall ti-tree (_melaleuca_), that either by swimming or with friendly aid a prisoner might cross the interven…
- Boonbolong in Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales#2029as represented by a very little man, a dwarf in fact, who prowled about at night, and was impervious to shot, ball, spear, or, in fact, any weapon. There was. however, a chance of escape for the unhappy creature who enc…
- Boonbolong in Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales#2028give the password would be devoured. The evil spirit in the Newcastle and Port Stephens districts was called " Koen," and was represented as being an 4 NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. animal very much like a…
- Devil Devils in Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales#2027which the dreaded phantom appears. In every instance, however, the blacks believe that the aim of these " Devil Devils" (which is the anglicised term) is destruction to those unfortunates who happen to fall in their way…