Sea spirits of the dead
Andamanese · deity · perpetual (spirits of the dead, ongoing) · Recorded classification
Collective spirit-class (the sea dead), entered as deity-class per the schema instruction for spirit-classes. Paired with the lau (forest dead); together they exhaust the destinations of the Andamanese dead. 'Juruwin' is the plural/locative form; singular jurua/juru. Sex varies. Term is a Latin transcription (Andamanese unwritten).
Domains
- spirits of the dead
- sea and tides
Powers
- dwell in the sea and endanger the living
Sources
- A dead coastal-dweller becomes a spirit of the sea (jurua); the sea-spirits (juruwin) are the maritime counterpart of the forest lau in Andamanese belief.: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, The Andaman Islanders, Cambridge University Press, 1922 (ethnography)