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SOME AUSTRALIAN MYTHS

... A writer in the September number Belgravia gives some quaint and amusiug details as to the superstitions the Australian aborigines. They believe, of course, in spirits; which are both celestial, infernal, and terrestrial. They have a good spirit called Pirumeheeal (the writer does not tell us how to pronounce these singular names), and a bad one called Muuruup. The latter also answers to ...