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have no desire to see the ghost or shadow. Dreams are believed 

 in, 



143-144. The members of an adjoining tribe never see the giiost 

 of a member of another tribe, and a man's ghost cannot 1)6 

 extracted or stolen from his body, nor can a person lose it by 

 accident. 



145-147. A corroboree may be held and a ghost commanded to 

 leave, on which it is supposed to enter the earth and become a 

 portion of it ; it cannot, however, be held or retained. 



148. They do not believe in transmigration of souls. I 

 have, it is true, heard it stated that the natives believe that when 

 one of their people die he will, using their own expression, 

 "jump up white fellow." This is entirely erroneous as regards 

 these natives ; all that they know about a future state is com- 

 prised in seeing the shadow before described. As to whether 

 they do see anything, I cannot say ; but they are very emphatic 

 on the question. 



149-152. Animals, trees, plants and inanimate things are not 

 supposed to have souls, are not dressed as human beings, are not 

 thought to possess a language of their own. 



Demons and Spirits. 

 153-155. Are believed in only so far as has been previously 

 r»ienti<jned. 



Scape-goats. 



156-157. They do not employ scape-goats. Any unfortunates, 

 such as deaf and dumb, silly people, and imbeciles are well looked 

 after. 



Guardian Spirits. 



158-162. They neither believe in guardian spirits, nor do they 

 think that their lives or fortunes are bound up with some special 

 object, the destruction of which will affect their own lives. 

 Patron objects are unknown. 



Resurrection. 

 163. They do not believe in any form of resurrection. 



The Heavenly Bodies. 

 164-169. None of these are worshipped. The sun, they believe 

 goes into the earth at sunset and appears out of the earth next 

 morning. Stars are imagined to be pieces of fire, and they can- 

 not explain the phases of the moon. An eclipse, they say, is 

 caused by a " big fellow snake "; and if it be a total eclipse, he is 

 supposed to cause some great calamity, such as floods, drouglits, 

 pestilences, &c.; but before the actual calamity overtakes them 

 one of the tribe will dream what form it is to take. Thunder 



