Haunted Earth

• Author(s): Peter Read,
• Publisher: UNSW Press
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 0868407267
  ISBN_13: 9780868407265
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Australia & New Zealand , Body, Mind & Spirit / General , Body, Mind & Spirit / Supernatural (incl. Ghosts) , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... This extraordinary book tackles head-on the existence and meaning of spirit forces in Australia. Haunted Earth asks a few key questions: Is Australia haunted? If so, where, and with what? Are there spiritual or otherwise 'special' places in Australia? Each chapter follows a round-the-clock journey, from midnight to midnight, charting the activities of Australians of many different experiences and cultures: there are Aboriginal spirits on Flinders Island at daybreak, the summoning of a Chinese ancestor spirit at noon in Perth, an exorcism in New South Wales in early afternoon.