[782] Sometimes the work of the missionaries is evident. Dawson speaks of a real hell opposed to paradise; but he too tends to regard this as a European importation.
[783] Dorsey, XIth Rep., pp. 419-420, 422, 485. Cf. Marillier, La survivance de l'âme et l'idée de justice chez les peuples non-civilisés, Rapport de l'Ecole des Hautes Études, 1893.
[784] They may be doubled temporarily, as we shall see in the next chapter: but these duplications add nothing to the number of the souls capable of reincarnation.
[785] Strehlow, I, p. 2.
[786] Nat. Tr., p. 73, n. 1
[787] On this set of conceptions, see Nat. Tr., pp. 119, 123-127, 387 ff.; Nor. Tr., pp. 145-174. Among the Gnanji, it is not necessarily near the oknanikilla that the conception takes place. But they believe that each couple is accompanied in its wanderings over the continent by a swarm of souls of the husband's totem. When the time comes, one of these souls enters the body of the wife and fertilizes it, wherever she may be (Nor. Tr., p. 169).
[788] Nat. Tr., pp. 512 f.; cf. ch. x and xi.
[789] Nat. Tr., p. 119.
[790] Among the Kaitish (Nor. Tr., p. 154) and the Urabunna (Nor. Tr., p. 146).
[791] This is the case among the Warramunga and the related tribes, the Walpari, Wulmala, Worgaia, Tjingilli (Nor. Tr., p. 161), and also the Umbaia and the Gnanji (ibid., p. 170).