According to D.V. Lucas in Australia and Homeward, the aboriginals believe that children are not supposed to have souls before they are five years old. This is further detailed in the works of Spencer and Gillen. In The Native Tribes of Central Australia, they note the belief that upon a child’s death, its spirit part “goes back at once to the particular spot from whence it came, and can be born again at some subsequent time even of the same woman.”