Giant and Ogre Narratives
Giant and Ogre Narratives are grouped here as a public-text classification across the AusFigures corpus. The category describes source framing and archive coding; it is not a claim that the underlying supernatural account is true.
- Search-ready records
- 124
- Public sources
- 4
- States / territories
- 7
- Dated span
- 1861–2019
Classification follows the public archive coding layer and may be revised when source context or terminology is reviewed.
Representative records — first 60
- Yahoo in Yahoo Creek hairy man tradition#4150ABC Nightlife described the mythical creature known as the Yahoo or hairy man as being frequently spotted along the Great Dividing Range as settlers pushed into the Australian hinterland, in an interview with Tohby Ridd…
- giant in Canberra history and legends#3683and shaded gul- j f ——— ITS HISTORY AND LEGENDS 137 lies I speak of are to be found tree-ferns of large growth and picturesque character. Not only are they of unusual height, but their spreading fronds stretch for many…
- giant in Canberra history and legends#3682daring outlaw his father put aside his favourite musket, and he considered that many of the yarns that were circulated about the fellow were without foundation. “Jack the Flogger’s” Fearful Fate. Another remarkable man…
- giant in Australian Legends#3787self that it was really the totem of his father and himself, he said that it must not be again produced so that he could see it. The man who killed it must hide it, and it must be cooked and eaten quite out of sight of…
- giant in Australian Legends#3786that gaze out- ever out--over the great blue expanse of Pacific Sea. These highlands are but foothills, though far-flung, of Australia's Great Dividing Range. They have been pressed to where they are by great weight. It…
- giant in Australian Legends#3785ver the mountain people and he insisted that no more marriages take place between the groups except under special circumstances, and he was obeyed. In time they came to consider themselves a different people and they ca…
- giant in Australian Legends#3784utrid meat, and breaking a part off she tied it to the end of a long stick. This she put into the water close to the big stones, and when it was bristling with clinging yabbies she drew them, clinging to the bait, right…
- giant in Australian Legends#3783deep in a soft place on the opposite bank. There was a charred mark down its whole length, and the bone point was wrenched off. Warmeela lay prone amongst his struggling fish. A brother rushed to him and bore him back t…
- giant in Australian Legends#3782through the great gum-trees like a mighty torrent of water. The huge branches were tossed, and they swayed and crashed amongst one another and were twisted apart and fell. The small twigs snapped and were whirled about…
- giant in Australian Legends#3781ers and the honey-eaters and the diamond sparrows and white-eyes and silver- eyes all had paused to watch him go by. Satin birds and catbirds and parrots sat in the branches or darted through them as he passed under, an…
- giant in Australian Legends#3780in the morning he said "good-bye" to his wife, and having received a sacred stone from the priest for placing in his hair above his ear for good luck, he again crossed through the boronia and leptospermum and bracken un…
- giant in Australian Legends#3779carpet of Randia and tiny wild violets overlaid with the tough and thick-leaved Smilax australis. Its nest was placed on a flat ledge of the biggest rock and it had in it a furry youngster that sat as still as the rock…
- giant in Australian Legends#3778ther. And one morning when the sun shone calmly and clearly down through the blue, and the mountain was purpled, and the lower slopes were deep green and dark with the jungle, and the strip of undulating land that lay b…
- giant in Australian Legends#3777e hair from her head. This he hid, hoping that the next time that the big hunter was angry and roared the hair would be enough to cover, not one woodpecker only, but the whole woodpecker family. It is noticed that woodp…
- giant in Australian Legends#3776well as the fern roots. The grubs were the beautiful white ones that lie in interstices in old logs and are called "nuttoo." The first kangaroo was said to be a great beast and was not innocent of eating small black chi…
- giant in Australian Legends#3775nderful patterns against the brown, but drawing out and contracting, waving like giant battle-plane streamers, now straight as spears, now bent over like millions of boomerangs, now detaching, then adhering; the awe- st…
- giant in Australian Legends#3774is sight, and at once he lost the bee. Indeed, he forgot it. The strangest mass of cloud he had ever seen was there. It was sepia coloured with black edges. It seethed and curled and split. It billowed and curled and br…
- giant in Australian Legends#3773could catch Krubi alone. Many days sped by; several moons came and went. Then the blacks determined to have a corroboree. A good young man had been having private lessons in the things that were taught which Krubi and W…
- giant in Australian Legends#3772gated on the island until they had expiated their sins, when they were allowed to go on. Others failed when climbing the mountain, and there on some barren peak they had to wait, while others remained faithful until rea…
- giant in Australian Legends#3771e to a passage so narrow and jagged that he cut his knees and his forehead. But he kept on. Once he had to pull away a stone or two in order to go further. At last he espied a thin streak of daylight. It came down from…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2337a spurt she therefore made for a giant gum tree near at hand, thinking that, by dodging behind it, she could double back and reach the house ahead of him. But he was far too swift of foot, and, just as she reached the t…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2335managed to escape from his grasp. With fear to aid her speed, she turned and ran for the road, hoping that some passer-by might come to her rescue. She had barely started, however, before she realised that he was out-pa…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2334day so that ye can see her!” * * * * * * * Four years prior to the conversation just recorded Donald McIvor, the baker, had asked Nellie Moir, the waitress at the hotel, to marry him. They had been friends from the day…
- giant in Australian Legends#1914river gave many hours’ shelter from the burning, blazing sun. That side with the easterly aspect was clothed with many myrtles and much Macrozamia? and Chorizema* and bracken fern. Quite a number of the dainty, feathery…
- giant in Australian Legends#1913ravine. The whole season had been droughty, and the water was hardly running at all. Yet there were holes, and great wide holes too, wherein the water was so deep that no one knew of any tree that would reach down to th…
- giant in Australian Legends#1912ck guides, he was returned to the navy, and his end came to him back in his native England, after being entrusted by the British Government with the task of erecting Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment. Though h…
- spirit in Australian Legends#1908he shadow of the tree was impenetrable to the "little men," and a bright star shed a beam to the tortoise. The sorcerer saw that he must die before he could pass the little men and he and his party returned home. He sha…
- giant in Australian Legends#1907who had seen these fairy places and always knew that a continuous stream of spirits passed that way to the Unseen River. Two giant trees grew on the bank, and a tortoise lay athwart it. Up to the time of this happening…
- spirits in Australian Legends#1906y clear about the picture just described. They said that not only had some people spoken to returned men who had waded through the lake and been on the island and climbed the mountain and nearly reached the river, but t…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#1466Scott!” “Good-bye! ‘Sunset’” THE boy stood stock still— and listened. He had just imitated a Lyre Bird’s call, and appeared to be waiting for its echo, or a reply. Round about him there was a thick forest. The trees wer…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1407he had, unthinkingly, left the carriage to get some flowers. Now, strewn about the desert over which she had been dragged, they all lay dead! The Prince at once resolved that she should have some others to take their pl…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1406l sound asleep; or, to be quite accurate, all were asleep except the few guards posted at fairly distant intervals along the outer edges of the camp. Their duty was to watch out for any attack by possible enemies, such…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1403ourse of fifteen or twenty minutes— just as the stars began to peep at them through the gently swaying tree tops—they were all sound asleep; or, to be quite accurate, all were asleep except the few guards posted at fair…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1402nts and Giant Killers. It is the world we knew so well when we, too, walked with fearful joy amid its mystic, thrilling groves. To dull and prosaic souls it does not exist, for, lacking imagination, they walk in outer d…
- fairies in Australian Fairy Tales#1397t is the world in which the children of all the world live: the world of Bogies and Dragons, Fairy Princes and Princesses, Giants and Giant Killers. It is the world we knew so well when we, too, walked with fearful joy…
- fairy in Australian Fairy Tales#1396You are one of those who are not privileged to pass its magic portals. But it is a very real world for all that. It may indeed turn out to be no less real than this, which is the only one you deem worth knowing, and whi…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2407water and tightened the lashings of the raft as well as he was able. It was a long, dreary night, especially after the moon went down. Fortunately it was warm and fine. Indeed, throughout that trying time of flood, curi…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2406elt. It was the first time she had ever used that name when addressing him, and her voice sounded so inexpressibly sweet that, without even glancing at Bridget, he turned and took the girl in his arms and kissed her, a…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2405heard before. But he persevered; and, bringing a couple of men from the township fifty miles away, set them to work. Dead Finish was situated at the extreme head of one of those short Australian coastal rivers whose exi…
- giant in Across Australia, volume 1#3073robably, however, inaccessible to horses — about which he discreetly said nothing. The huge masses of Mt. Olga are formed of a coarse conglomerate of younger age than the arkose sandstone of which Ayers Rock is formed.…
- giant in Across Australia, volume 1#3072the solitude and silence on these Lower Steppe lands VOL. I H 98 ACROSS AUSTRALIA ch. v must have been absolutely appalling. In post-Cretaceous times the weathering away of the hard, surface rock, ac- companied by a plu…
- giant in Across Australia, volume 1#3071the chance of securing alive a few specimens of a Crustacean of which we had pre- viously discovered the dried " shells " strewn over the ground in one special spot in the Macdonnell Ranges, four hundred miles away to t…
- giant in The Aborigines of Tasmania#1724e eighty-nine inches long and consisting of 565 of these shells {Elenchus hellulus). In the Tasmanian Museum, at Hobart, there are two necklaces ; one of light coloured shells, the other of a dark lustrous green : the l…
- giant in More Australian Legendary Tales#3093much hunting for himself. Nor did he care so much for the flesh of emu and kangaroo as he did for the flesh of men. He used to entice young men to his camp by various devices, and then kill and eat them. At last the Dae…
- giant in More Australian Legendary Tales#3087ese tales." FAIRY TALES FROM THE FAR NORTH. By P. C. AsBjoRNSEN. Translated by H. L. Br/Ekstad. With 94 Illustrations by E. Werekskiold, T. Kittelsen, and H. SiNDiNG. Small 4to (" Wonder Voyages " size), beautifully pri…
- giant in More Australian Legendary Tales#3085then kill and eat them. At last the Daens found out what he was doing. They were very angry, and determined to punish him. "We will kill or cripple him," they said, **so that he, giant though he be, shall be powerless a…
- phantom in Australian fairy tales#2383is no water in Phantom Hollow? And last but not least: Why figs do not grow on the tree by the hut? Now begone! and bring me the answers before sundown,” cried the Red Giant in a towering rage. Our hero departed with a…
- bunyip in Australian fairy tales#2382st his breakfast. Dismounting from his steed the giant beckoned him forward, and thus addressed him: “You lazy imp! It would suit you very well to do nothing but eat my victuals and take a sleep afterwards, but you shal…
- bunyip in Australian fairy tales#2376ve accomplished the release of my lady-bird Brown Eyes. Hold fast to that hair of the Bunyip’s tail, for it will prove one of the most powerful weapons in the art of magic. It is a talisman to swear by, and none can res…
- phantom in Australian fairy tales#2375ought you were going to set me something very difficult. What are the three questions?” “Why the leaves on the trees grow edgeways to the sun?” said the giant. “Next: What is the reason there is no water in Phantom Holl…
- phantom in Australian fairy tales#2374three questions—the answers to which you must bring to me before sundown, otherwise your miserable life shall answer for it.” “Oh, that’s quite easy,” replied Cocky, with a dash of his city assurance. “I thought you wer…
- bunyip in Australian fairy tales#2373.” “Agreed,” cried the young fellow resolutely. “You have done me good service already; therefore whatever you order I am ready to obey.” “Thank you, Jack. Good-bye for the present. I can hear King Red Gum returning fro…
- spirits in Australian fairy tales#2372d when his spirits flagged and the dog whined he cried out, “Duty, Possum, Duty!” At length they emerged out upon a ledge of ridges with deep ravines intervening. Below the fog looked inky black. Our hero paused, and Po…
- spirits in Australian fairy tales#2371ried the youngster, as he mounted the steep crags above Ridgeford in safety. But the words were hardly out of his mouth when both he and the dog were enveloped in a deep mist, whirling and eddying round, till the child…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#2367et. For what length of time the Nugget slumbered on this good Christmas Eve will never be known. Certain it is that he suddenly opened his eyes and beheld one of the biggest, and withal one of the ugliest, hulking fello…
- giants in Australian fairy tales#2361norance. Erect and threatening they rose to crush me, but at sight of my conductor they fell down again in abject submission and opened the door; whereupon we passed into a mighty cavern, so wide and so lofty that its m…
- giants in Australian fairy tales#2360me is Science. What dost thou want with me?” I found the power of speech return to me ere the last words were uttered. “Let me behold some of Nature’s secrets,” I cried eagerly. “Thou art a bold mortal.” “I am earnest.…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#2359ime is up the ten years of the monkey bring the close of the scene, for in these man becomes foolish, gabbers and jabbers without end, and is fit for nothing but——” The elfin paused, and gazed earnestly at the mortal. “…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#2352ed and sought to hush to sleep. And now the view opens upon a magnificent glade, with here and there a huge eucalyptus standing out in bold relief like a grim giant on guard. Here the elfin King and his grotesque retinu…
- giant in Australian fairy tales#2351. What engines made of mortal hands could propel a boat so swiftly and noiselessly as those proud, vigorous swans, who glided onward down the river with the elfin barque and its freight as if the whole thing had been no…
This collection contains 124 search-ready records. The complete record set remains discoverable through the paginated public record index.