EVIL SPIRITS. 
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telling each tribe that they were to inhabit such and 
such localities, and were to speak such and such a 
language. It is said that he brought the natives 
originally from some place over the waters to the 
eastward. The Nooreele never die, and the souls 
(ludko, literally a shadow) of dead natives will go up 
and join them in the skies, and will never die again. 
Other tribes of natives give an account of a serpent 
of immense size, and inhabiting high rocky moun- 
tains, which, they say, produced creation by a blow 
of his tail. But their ideas and descriptions are too 
incongruous and unintelligible to deduce any definite 
or connected story from them. 
All tribes of natives appear to dread evil spirits, 
having the appearance of Blacks (called in the 
Murray dialect Tou, in that of Adelaide Kuinyo). 
They fly about at nights through the air, break 
down branches of trees, pass simultaneously from 
one place to another, and attack all natives that 
come in their way, dragging such as they can catch 
after them. Fire* appears to have considerable 
effect in keeping these monsters away, and a native 
will rarely stir a yard by night, except in moonlight, 
without carrying a fire-stick. Under any circum- 
stances they do not like moving about in the dark, 
and it is with the greatest difficulty that they are 
* Fire is produced by the friction of two pieces of wood or 
stick — generally the dry flower-stem of the Xanthorrea. The 
natives, however, usually carry a lighted piece of wood about 
with them, and do not often let it go out. 
