 | George French Angas - Australia - 1847 - 374 pages
...children, and never beat them ; if they are displeased, they take them up and throw them to a distance. When an individual dies, they carefully avoid mentioning...faint that they imagine the spirit cannot hear their voice. The body is never buried with the head on, the skulls of the dead being taken away and used... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1864 - 506 pages
...to throw a little earth over them." " Among the aborigines of Australia," says a modern traveller, "when an individual dies they carefully avoid mentioning...faint that they imagine the spirit cannot hear their voice. The body is never buried with the head on, the skulls of the dead being taken away and used... | |
 | James Greenwood - Anthropology - 1865 - 466 pages
...to throw a little earth over them." " Among the aborigines of Australia," says a modern traveller, " when an individual dies they carefully avoid mentioning...pronounce it in a very low whisper, so faint that thoy imntrine the spirit cannot hear their voice. The body is never buried with the head on, the skulls... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1900 - 510 pages
...might hear you and kill me ! " ' Of the tribes on the Lower Murray River we are told that when a person dies " they carefully avoid mentioning his name ;...faint that they imagine the spirit cannot hear their voice." ~ Amongst the tribes of Central Australia no one may utter the name of the deceased during... | |
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When an individual dies, they carefully avoid mentioning his name ; but if compelled to do so, they pronounce it in a very low whisper, so faint that they imagine the spirit cannot hear their voice. 