Old Man
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Old Man” 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
- 1896–1896
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- old man in Australian Legendary Tales#2494ss nyunnoos, more than twenty. He made fires before each, to make it look as if some one lived in the nyunnoos. First he would go into one nyunnoo, or humpy, and cry like a baby, then to another and laugh like a child,…
- old man in Australian Legendary Tales#2492h they sounded as if coming from the sky. As the cries sounded again the mothers looked up whence they came, and there they saw the mubboo trees with their sons beside them. Then well they knew that they would see no mo…
- old man in Australian Legendary Tales#2456And gone is the life of a man who meets in a scrub of Noondoo an earmoonan, for surely will it slay him. Not even did Byamee ever dare to go near the breed of his old dog. And Byamee, the mighty Wirreenun, lives for eve…
- old man in Australian Legendary Tales#2455he springs of Noondoo, the dog sneaked away into a thick scrub, and there were born her litter of pups. But such pups as surely man never looked at before. The bodies of dogs, and the heads of pigs, and the fierceness a…