bark-fibre

Updated: May 11, 2025

To continue the quotation from Miss Harrison: "More often the new birth is stimulated, or imagined, as a death and a resurrection, either of the boys themselves or of some one else in their presence. Thus at initiation among some tribes of South-east Australia, when the boys are assembled an old man dressed in stringy bark-fibre lies down in a grave.

Edward Carpenter - Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning