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- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3495e can be mutilated in a terrible manner." A native of Gippsland has related the following story to Mr. A. W. Howitt, showing how a Mrart was outwitted by a blackfellow : — " A long time ago, before ' you and me father b…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3494e name," says Tylor, " is held to be part of the very being of the man who bears it, so that by it his personality may be carried away, and, so to speak, grafted elsewhere, appears in the way in which the sorcerer uses…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3493been dragged into his caves. He is a terror to the natives of Gippslaud.* . Ga/MUim4 KOOTCHEE, The following account of the Evil Spirit that torments the natives of the Dieyerie tribe (Cooper's Creek) has been communica…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3492ains were afterwards rescued by his uncle CoUen-bitchick (double star in the head of Capricornus). The double star, the natives say, is his fingers feeling for the bank of the river. * Speaking of Lake George, Lieut. Br…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3491ad an opportunity of jjrocuring with the least trouble. Mr. Gason has seen a native who was quite ill actually cry for Koonkie, and, after being treated in this manner, appear to recover. Should the patient not recover,…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3490pparently partly by the suffrages of the people, but a Koonkie must have seen the devil {Kootchee) before he is eligible for election. Mr. Gason relates how a man or a woman becomes a doctor. If any among the young have…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3489ut, Abel's eyes improved rapidly until they were perfectly restored." t The two waddies knocked together on such occasions arc named Tartengk 2G2 THE ABOEIGLNES OF VICTORIA: The doctors {Koonkie) of the Dieyerie people…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3488toria), the workman came upon dry grass, like hay, at a dej^th of sixty-three feet. Underneath this ancient grass- clad surface they sank a depth of sixty feet through a blue and yellow clay, and there they found the sk…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3487t find some evidence — a broken stone tomahawk or a stone spear-head — in some of the most recent accumulations ? Their stone im- plements are not found in caves or in the mud of lagoons with the bones of the gigantic m…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3486airies are said to ride occasionally through the air. The blossoms and tops of these buughe-lawn weeds were put in a porringer, filled with water, that had been left simmering on the kitchen fire. Some unaccountable tlo…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3485the first cold breeze began to stir the mists of the swamps, and when the stars were glit^ tering and melting in the steel-blue of the western sky, the conductors would awake the strangers and recommence the journey. Al…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3484FIG. 240. " Speaking from memory, this canoe was about ten feet long, and carried Toolabar, myself, and our saddles and effects over the ' Snowy ;' but tliere was not much to spare between the edge of the canoe and the…
- ghosts in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3483hen old and stale, they are placed up in trees, on boughs laid across for this purpose. Sometimes they burn the bones of the dead and carry the ashes about with them. Sometimes the dead bodies are placed (whole) in tree…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3482pirits or ghosts of the dead remain for at least a little time near the, spots that they loved when living, and it is to satisfy and appease the shades and ghosts that, when a warrior dies, they murder some of the peopl…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3481at covers the grave, and see in the line of the principal fissure where they are to look for the wicked sorcerer who has done to death, by his charms, their late comjtanion. The natives believe that the spirits or ghost…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3480e battle ended, Nargun is like MYTHS. 457 a rock ( WaUtiny), and is all of stone except the breast and the arms and the hands. Ko one knows exactly what he is like. Nargun is always on the look- out for blackfellows, an…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3479outhern plains, between Clarence and the Murray; and the instrument used is said to have been a spear, thrown by some unknown being, and directed by some supernatural power. The tradition goes on to state that Bindir-wo…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3478In Fraser Island (Great Sandy Island), Queensland, they have strange methods of disposing of the dead. Old men, old women, and young women that are not fat, are rolled in their blankets or rugs, and buried in a grave wh…
- ghosts in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3477jment. This is the reason they give for keeping away from the grave ; but it is probable that the strong human instinct which leads men to refrain from amusements, cheerful talk, and the common acts of life in the vicin…
- ghosts in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3476e them. They believe that the ghosts depart and find rest in regions either towards the setting sun, or in the east, where he rises. Stanbridge says that the heaven of the Murray people is towards the setting sun ; Wilh…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3475counter Bay rely on the dreams of a wise man who sleeps with his head on the corpse ; and on one part of the Murray they watch the drying of the damp clay that covers the grave, and see in the line of the principal fiss…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3474one to bear burdens, to dig laboriously, or to suffer restraint. He likes to exert himself when exertion is pleasurable, but not for ulterior purposes will he slave, as the white man slaves, nor would he work as the neg…
- wizard in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3473Those who are iuclined to amuse themselves with what are generally regarded as the foolish superstitions of the Australian natives may find enjoyment also in perusing the histories of witch- craft in England. Our native…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3472Howitt, showing how a Mrart was outwitted by a blackfellow : — " A long time ago, before ' you and me father been dead boy,' a blackfellow went to pick Goor- nung (kangaroo apple) at a place near the Lakes, Gippsland, c…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3471Many blacks now living remember these people, and the following particulars are condensed from the account given to me by several Aborigines : — A Birra-ark was a blackfellow who was in communication with the spirits of…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3470Some unaccountable tlourisbes were made over the sick woman, then some strokes on her back and forehead, with three shakes — 'in the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost' — when helped to an upright sitting posture by fe…
- wizard in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3469The wizard's assistance was invoked in the case of an old woman who had fallen into a decline.
- wizard in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3468Malcolm, a wizard — a most learned doctor — who believed he could fly and cut the air as well as any eagle, now commenced his labors. He disappeared in the darkness ; boughs cracked and rustled as he took his supposed f…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3467Tliomas* has given an account of this strange malady and the eifects of it as observed in the case of a Goulburn black, who was attacked by the spirit of a wild black while on a hunting expedition.
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3466Thus Iving James, in his ' Damonohgy' says that 'the devil teacheth how to make pictures of wax or clay, that by roasting thereof, the persons that they bear the name of may be continually melted or dried away by contin…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3465When an Aboriginal is alone and far distant from his encampments, he is liable to have his kidney-fat taken from him by the spirit of a wild black. Tlie kidney-fat {Marm-bu-la) is taken away in some secret manner, and d…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3464The blacks believe that the spirits of the dead ( Yambo kane) go about the earth and visit the camps of the blacks. Sir. Bulmer gives a somewhat amusing account of the way in which the spirits may be made usefiil. An ol…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3463Murran* which signifies a leaf, was the name of the young woman ; and Mr. Thomas says that he ascertained afterwards that the figures of leaves had been carved on a gum-tree, as described by the girl. She died. The sorc…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3462The doctors can extract the blood of any man, and thus destroy him. The most effectual means of causing death or giving diseases is known only to the priests or sorcerers, but some methods of inflicting pain and communi…
- wizard in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3461When a black is ill, or when a black dies, they believe that the sickness or the death is due to eminent powers of witchcraft. In the case of death, they blame some one — and they seek revenge. They say that some men ha…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3460Quietness fell on the camp — all, including Tuart, fell asleep, and no more was heard of the evil spirit.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3459Thomas was about to seize him, but was held back by the blacks, who declared that Tuart was possessed of an evil spirit, and would injure him.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3458Thomas was awakened by loud shouts — ^^ Kom-ar-gee Marm-in-arta U-reeT — " Get up quickly, father!" — "an evil spirit has entered Tuartr Blazing fires were made, lights flitted and sprang up in all directions, and the e…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3457Tuart, an old black, was lying comfortably asleep one night in the encampment on the south bank of the River Yarra, when, about midnight, an evil spirit entered into him, and he became mad.
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3456Krum-ku-dart Buneit — evil spirits — take possession of the bodies of even aged and wise men.
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3455The blacks are very often attacked by the evil spirits, who are supposed to inflict injuries and give diseases by such simple means as the thrusting of twigs and small pieces of wood into the eye or the ear. The late Mr…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3454Of evil spirits they can speak fluently. One called Ngatga does harm to them continually, and of him they stand in dread. In all evils which befall them Ngatga has a part. Great fires and great floods, as well as sickne…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3453The spirits {Len-ba^moorr) instruct the doctors as to the best mode of killing a man of a strange or hostile tribe. If it is desired to compass his death by slow degrees, that may be done in several ways. One method is…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3452The doctor {Koonkie), Gasoa says, is a native who, when a chUd, has seen the Devil, and the DevU is called Kootchee.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3451The following account of the Evil Spirit that torments the natives of the Dieyerie tribe (Cooper's Creek) has been communicated to me by Senior Constable James.
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3450No unnecessary conversation interrupts the journey through the tall damp ferns, past the ghost-like forms of the grass-trees, through the deep mazes of the tangled reeds and tea-tree.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3449The name of the country is Marr-ne-beek. The country belonged to one called Loo-errn. Loo-errn is to some an evil spirit, and to others a good spirit. Loo-errn had his house at Wamoom (Wilson's Promontory). If any one n…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3448It is believed to be in the power of the large serpent Mindi, the supposed incarnation of the destroying spirit, to send this plague forth in answer to the appeals and incantations of those who seek the destruction of t…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3447The Bun-yip is mentioned by Grey in his work on North-West and Western Australia. He says: — "The Wan-gul is an imaginary aquatic monster, residing in fresh water, and endowed with supernatural power, which enables it t…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3446* Speaking of Lake George, Lieut. Breton says " that no one seems to know wliat animals inhabit the lake, though it is pretended that a species of seal, or, as it was called, a devil, had been seen in it ; but as Satan…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3445This person was one of the race who then inhabited the earth, and who are now called Ntirrum- bung-uttias, or old spirits.
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3444The place where the scene occurred, and where Bin-dir-woor was buried, the natives imagine to have been on the southern plains, between Clarence and the Murray; and the instrument used is said to have been a spear, thro…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3443The Coranderrk blacks say that there is one man {Kooleen) under the ground {Beeli) who has a long tail. He has a great many wives and many children. He is a very bad man, and always laughs at the blacks because they hav…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3442t The men of the Yarra tribe say that Ngar-ang, an evil spirit, causes the whirlwind ( Wee- oong-hoorh) to arise.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3441" In the beginning," say the Dieyerie, "the Moora-moora (good spirit) made a number of small black lizards (these are still to be met with under dry bark), aud being pleased with them, he promised they should have power…
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3440" Speaking from memory, this canoe was about ten feet long, and carried Toolabar, myself, and our saddles and effects over the ' Snowy ;' but tliere was not much to spare between the edge of the canoe and the water. At…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3439John Green says that the Aborigines of tlie Yarra do not know what meaning he attached to the several figures ; but they suppose that the men represented in the upper part of the draw- ing are friends who have been appo…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3438t It is very singular, says Mr. Bulmer, that the natives, who have no form of religion, should have a distinct idea of a spirittial existence. They think that the soul, as soon as it leaves the l'o<ly> goKs off to the e…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3437Mr. Stanbridge found the like practices to prevail amongst the natives of the north-western parts of Victoria. The doctor receives his special gifts while in a trance, lasting two days or more, when he visits the world…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3436Should the patient not recover, Koonkie tells the people that some Koonkie of another tribe, possessing more skill, has taken away from him the power that was given by the devil ; and every one is satisfied.
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3435If any among the young have had nightmare or an unpleasant dream, the particulars are stated to the tribe, and if they are satisfied that the young person has seen the devil, election to the office of Koonkie is at once…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3434They are chosen apparently partly by the suffrages of the people, but a Koonkie must have seen the devil {Kootchee) before he is eligible for election.
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3433It is undoubtedly true that the modes of treatment adopted by Europeans are not, as a rule, successful, if the black be at all uuder the influence of his own people. In the first place, there is the feeling of lonelines…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3432Speaking of the Great Red Pipe Stone Quarry of the Coteau des Prairies, between the Minnesota and Missouri Elvers in the Far West, Catlin tells us '•' that this place should have been visited for centuries past by all t…
- giant in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3431J "A whale" says Grey, "is the greatest delicacy that a native can partake of, and whilst standing beside the giant frame of one of these monsters of the deep, he can only be compared to a mouse standing before a huge p…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3430Parker says he has witnessed ceremonies having resemblance to an act of worship, when the blacks have assembled to propitiate Mindi, an evil spirit, whose sole business it was to destroy.* They dwelt on this — the idea…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3429a fierce and hostile spirit, still, on the other, it must be observed that they are capable of the more noble feelings of pity and compassion. This is called forth by a dangerous wound "
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3428It was believed by some for a length of time that the wild dog was of recent introduction to Australia ; but this is not so. In sinking a well through volcanic ash, near Tower Hill (Western district of Victoria), the wo…
- ghosts in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3427When a young man dies, they first skin him, then cut off his flesh, which is placed on their spears to dry; the bones are then taken to pieces, the large ones are cut asunder, and the marrow emptied out. The various par…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3426In Fraser Island (Great Sandy Island), Queensland, they have strange methods of disposing of the dead. Old men, old women, and young women that are not fat, are rolled in their blankets or rugs, and buried in a grave wh…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3425"Although, on the one side, they possess a fierce and hostile spirit, still, on the other, it must be observed that they are capable of the more noble feelings of pity and compassion.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3424Not untU the sorcerer is destroyed, or other expiatory sacrifice made, is the spirit of the dead man appeased.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3423To mention the name would excite the malignity of Couit-gil, the spirit of the departed, which hovers over the earth for a time, and finally goes towards the setting sun.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3422If the death of a black occur after sunset, when there is not time to use all the proper ceremonials in the light of day, the body is left in the place where the spirit fled ; and the nearest of kin — male and female —…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3421rejilies. Tlie sorcerer would have told the people that as their deceased brother had killed many wild blackfellows, so, in justice, should many die for him, and that the dead man had promised that if his murder should…
- ghosts in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3420No thought of danger nor dread of ghosts deters the widow from performing her duties if the performance of them be jjracticable.
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3419This is the reason they give for keeping away from the grave ; but it is probable that the strong human instinct which leads men to refrain from amusements, cheerful talk, and the common acts of life in the vicinity of…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3418They desert the spot because they say they believe that the wild black who has taken the kidney-fat of the deceased, or the spirit winch has destroyed him, will wander about the site of the old encaniijment.
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3417Thrclkeld mentions a bone — Mur-ra-kun — which is obtained by the Ka-ra-kul, a doctor or conjuror. Three of the doctors sleep on the grave of a recently-interred corpse, and in the night, when the doctors are asleep, th…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3416It is the tirm belief of the Aborigines that if a man to whom a female is betrothed sees or is seen by the mother of the girl, some disaster will happen to him, or that evil spirits will afflict him : and the mother-in-…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3415When the twigs and sticks have become rotten, the girl is safe from the attacks of sorcerers and evil spirits.
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3414" During the novitiate which precedes 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 for…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3413goat dung ; this ceremony, like those of masonry, being conducted to the sound of music. Afterwards there came from behind a kind of screen or shrine, uncouth and terrible sounds, such as he had never heard before. Thes…
- supernatural in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3412"The native women suffer much leas pain during the period of labor than Europeans; directly the cliild is born it is wrapped in opossum skinp, and strings made of the fur of this animal are tied like bracelets round the…
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3411Like the dark forests west of Mount Blackwood, they were held to be the abodes of evil spirits or of creatures — scarcely less to be dreaded — having the forms of men and the habits of beasts.
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3410Tliey are superstitious, they are credulous, and they willingly surrender their reason and ignore their instincts when influenced by their doctors and dreamers. They believe in the existence of evil spirits, and are afr…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3409CoUins's statements respecting the natives are accurate. "They are," he remarks in one part of his work, "revengeful, jealous, courageous, and cunning. Their stealing on each other in the night for the purjiose of murde…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3408The words Nau-Kai, a canoe ; Marat, spirit ; Joen, a man; Cobra, the head; Tiora, land; Mora>/, great; Gnara, a knot; Kir- adjee, a doctor; Urt/, ear; Yain, chin; Oura, our; Yai, yes; Yair, air; Keh-le-de, brightness ;…
- devil in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3407The bones of the Tasmanian devil (^Sarcophilus i/rsinus), the great kangaroo {Macropus Titan), the Thjlacoleo, the Nototherium, and the Diprotodon, and those of a reptile {Megalania prisca) allied to the lace lizards of…
- spirit in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3406Those who have seen a wonguim thrown by a native accustomed to its use need not be told that the statements published from time to time in the scientific journals in Europe are founded on imperfect information, or dicta…
- ghosts in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3405They believe that the ghosts depart and find rest in regions either towards the setting sun, or in the east, where he rises.
- ghost in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3404K blood were not shed, the ghost of the departed would haunt them, and perhaps injure them.
- spirits in The Aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#3403The natives believe that the spirits or ghosts of the dead remain for at least a little time near the, spots that they loved when living, and it is to satisfy and appease the shades and ghosts that, when a warrior dies,…
- fairy in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#1758epresent snakes, and on the other there is probably a copy of the device that the deceased had carved on his shield. Major Mitchell says that on the Bogan, not far from O.xley's table-land, he found the burial ground of…
- fairy in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#1757RS ANB DISTEIBUTION. 43 In the third report of the Board, the number and distribution of the natives of Victoria were — on 25th September 18G3 — as follows : — Blstrlctg. Southern South-Western North-Western Northern So…
- giant in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#1756d wood, and has an arm four and a half inches long, turning up at a sharp angle, and tipped with a slightly-curved barb of tortoise-shell, projecting horizontally inwards an inch and a half. It somewhat resembles the fi…
- wizard in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#1755nge gifts : that they can make any black sick if they think fit. A black will bear the most excruciating pain if he knows the cause — as, for instance, if he has been wounded. But if sickness overtakes him — such as occ…
- wizard in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#1754by hunger. Superior strength, and the influence which age commands, might have sufiiced for the easy government of the women aud children in this matter ; but the young men must have had a firm belief in the doctrines t…
- devil in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#1753t find some evidence — a broken stone tomahawk or a stone spear-head — in some of the most recent accumulations ? Their stone im- plements are not found in caves or in the mud of lagoons with the bones of the gigantic m…
- giant in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 1#1752rty chains in width, huge trees were uprooted and torn limb from limb ; and the stronger or better protected trees which had not been uprooted were stripped of their branches, and were standing naked and dead in a wilde…