B 505: Lecture on the Aborigines of Australia and papers on Wirradhurrei dialect, 1837-1840 - Page 20

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I deem it proper in the next place to give you a little information as far as i have been able to collect concerning any ...ideas and practices of 

Have they any idea of a future state? Is there any sort of religious belief among them or do they practice any religious life? That they believe in evil spirits as evil spirits... is pretty well known. The dread of these evil spirits continually (indeceipherable) them. All the ills they suffer sickness & other misfortunes especially...and if they are not easily... of the same are ascribed to the influence of some evil spirit...

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