Wirreenun
This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Wirreenun” 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
- 8
- Public sources
- 1
- States / territories
- 1
- Dated span
- 1905–1905
Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Public records
- Wirreenun in Spirits and Wirreenun#1443Bootha got up then, came over to the patient, took her hand, rubbed it round the wrist several times, muttering an incantation; then saying she would see her again next day, off she went, taking, she told us, all the sp…
- Wirreenun in Spirits and Wirreenun#1442In this Minggah, Guadgee said, were swarms of bees invisible to all but wirreenuns, and they are ready always to resent any insult to the Minggah or its shadow. These spirit-bees had entered Adelaide and secreted some w…
- Wirreenun in Spirits and Wirreenun#1441Guadgee answered all she was asked. She said Adelaide was made ill because she had offended the spirits by bathing in the creek under the shade of a Minggah, or spirit-tree, a place tabooed to all but wirreenuns, or suc…
- Wirreenun in Spirits and Wirreenun#1440'Wahl you frightened, wahl me hurt you. I only womba—mad—all yowee—spirits—in me tell me gubbah—good-I lib 'long a youee; bimeby I come back big feller wirreenun; wahl you frightened? I not hurt you.'
- Wirreenun in The Medicine Men#1363There are members of the tribes, principally wizards, or men intended to be such, who are given an individual totem called Yunbeai. This they must never eat or they will die. Any injury to his yunbeai hurts the man him…
- Wirreenun in Byamee and Social Organisation#1360; as the pebbles fell in, the water splashed up into the clouds above, whence it descended as the desired rain. It is told to me, that at some initiatory rites the oldest medicine man, or Wirreenun, present addresses a…
- Wirreenun in Byamee and Social Organisation#1359up a handful of crystal pebbles and thrown them from the sky down into the water in a stone basin on the top of the sacred mountain; as the pebbles fell in, the water splashed up into the clouds above, whence it descend…
- Wirreenun in Byamee and Social Organisation#1354It is told to me, that at some initiatory rites the oldest medicine man, or Wirreenun, present addresses a prayer to Byamee, asking him to give them long life, as they have kept his law.