Boylya
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Boylya” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.
- Search-ready records
- 4
- Public sources
- 1
- States / territories
- 1
- Dated span
- 1842–1842
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2088teeth on edge. KiLLAL, subst, — Formica maxima ; lion-ant. K'lLLiN, subst, — The pudenda. KiLUNG, subst, — (K.G.S.) The fresh-water tortoise. K-NUDE, subst, — A species of casuarina. KobbXlXk, subst Pregnancy. KobbXlo,…
- Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2087person thus endowed can transport himself through the air at pleasure, being invisible to every one but his fellow- Boylyagadak. If he have a dislike to another native, he is supposed to be able to kill him, by stealing…
- Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2086have fallen from the sky. BoYL — (K.G.S.) An entrance. BoYL-YA, subst, — A certain supposed power of witchcraft ; sorcery. BoYLYA GXdak, subst. — One possessed of Boylya ; a wizard ; magician. The men only are believed…
- Boylya in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia#2085r, on the parallel of Perth, is the greatest distance which has yet been reached in that direction. BoYEB, subst, — A name given to certain stones of a smooth ovate shape, which are found in several places, and are trad…