1890-1929
This collection groups search-ready public-text records assigned to 1890-1929. Counts reflect source survival, collection coverage, publication patterns, and archive coding rather than real-world supernatural frequency.
- Search-ready records
- 1,635
- Public sources
- 7
- States / territories
- 8
- Dated span
- 1890–1928
Representative records — first 60
- 1928 - Brisbane Courier#712Public AYR report page for 1928 - Brisbane Courier. Location cue from public page title/path: Brisbane, Queensland. Body excerpt retained for review: SOON after I first visited the Auburn River I made the acquaintance o…
- 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…
- ghost in Canberra history and legends#3681een Property (Collector) 38, 46, 161 Windmill: Canberra (ACT) 9 Windmill Hill (Collector) 144 Woden Property (Canberra) 9 Wollogorang Property (Breadalbane Plains) 144, 147 Woods, T. (Gininderra) 99 Wright, James (Canbe…
- ghosts in Canberra history and legends#3680and sugar, and to take an inventory of the deceased’s effects. While proceeding to the Washpen he was joined by Mr. Davis, who accom- panied him thither, being anxious to see the extraordi- nary white bull he had heard…
- ghost in Canberra history and legends#3679y because of its thrilling incidents, but as forming a fitting conclusion to a homestead so rich in anecdotal lore. Hence it follows :— When the Governor-General goes into residence at Yarralumla House, his temporary ho…
- spirit in Canberra history and legends#3678ew revolvers, and stood in readiness for defence. But this was unneces- sary, as the animal, on reaching the open grave, stopped suddenly, and with head erect, surveyed the surround- 76 CANBERRA: ings, pawed the earth f…
- spirit in Canberra history and legends#3677miller being John Gregory; Woden, the residence of Dr. Murray; Jerrabomberra, the estate of P. C. Palmer; Tuggranong, owned by one McQuoid, a victim of the Dunbar disaster; northwards were the farmsteads of the Shumacks…
- 1927 - History and Legends of the A.C.T. by John Gale#886Public AYR report page for 1927 - History and Legends of the A.C.T. by John Gale. Location cue from public page title/path: Australian Capital Territory, Australian Capital Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: #…
- 1927 - Canberra History & Legends by J. Gale#885Public AYR report page for 1927 - Canberra History & Legends by J. Gale. Location cue from public page title/path: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
- 1927 - History of ACT Legends, John Gale#711Public AYR report page for 1927 - History of ACT Legends, John Gale. Location cue from public page title/path: Australian Capital Territory, Australian Capital Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: Canberra: Hist…
- 1927 - Brindabella Article, John Gale#710Public AYR report page for 1927 - Brindabella Article, John Gale. Location cue from public page title/path: Brindabella, Australian Capital Territory. Body excerpt retained for review: History of and legends relating to…
- 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…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#3770, and how to put it out! Now the blacks had for ages used the stem of the waratah to enwrap any hot thing they wished to handle. They said that it entirely prevented burns. In the earliest days of white occupancy of Aus…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#3769izon down on the New South Wales Coast, somewhere in the mists of my past. But in Allambee's days there were different things everywhere. Whether of the animal world or the plant world or of the spirit world the aborigi…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3768to the Murray, as Central Queensland. This is perhaps the prettiest, and was obtained from a young native who lived mostly ina compound at Wahgunyah. He was camped with two gins on a reserve near Burryjaa Station, in N.…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3767hes the two netfuls of grubs walked up and up until they reached the sky. The women down below probed the holes in the logs in vain, for there were no grubs to be got. Bathing in the seas of the moon, Yunguipan and the…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3766from that camp followed. In his hurry and his excitement Yunguipan rushed without thinking of possible danger, to the sacred place. He reached it and found that he and the sisters were surrounded by others of the maiden…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3765le who believed that they were travelling to a big initiation ceremony were surprised to see a large number of men suddenly appear amongst them with all their weapons, and marking one another with the red ochre of war a…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3764led and clattered and fell one against the other. The Milky Way-the "pukkan" or track up which departed spirits often reached the world to which they went-also billowed and it split, and in some places is never joined t…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3763ess, with just a shred of the red of the burning west left, and with the stars showing brightly, and a rising moon putting an inquisitive edge over the haze of the east, the sky heaved and billowed arid tumbled and tott…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3762more waratah stems could be got before he essayed the dangerous task of lying across the fires. So they went back. Neither of them, nor the two together, could reach them. Then Camoola thought of the magic clay and he l…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3761ey may be seen under each fallen leaf, having no doubt gone there to escape the terrific heat. AT LOW TIDE This is a story of, in part, the coming of white men to Australia. Whether it is wholly true or not does not, pe…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3760ask just how to make some rain for himself. Wingaree left his tree and soared up into the sky and reached the place behind the cloud. There he sat watching until the rain spirit appeared. It was too angry to speak. Wing…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3759long cloud lay on the horizon, and Wingaree imagined that he could hide behind it and watch until the rain spirit came into view, and then he could step out and show his great respect and ask just how to make some rain…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3758n came from and search out the spirit that was there; and one hot night when the moon was full and the air was scorched and the ground was baked and the grass was all burnt off and the trees were withered, he decided th…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3757till to a very big lake that always had water in it. Wingaree was, however, very clever, and he believed that he could make rain. But he was afraid to put his powers to the test, for if he made any mistake the rain woul…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3756were now living no seeds sent out the little plumule nor their little radicle, and no new plants grew to grace the world with fresh flowers, nor to produce the roots nor fruits for food. Again the maiden thought of bese…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3755next year no new plants came up. This was noticed and talked about by all the people. Even on the river where a few of her people were now living no seeds sent out the little plumule nor their little radicle, and no new…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3754fresh. They were composed of the clay that the tribal doctor used to make the mystic markings, and the tribal priest used for the same purpose when he wished to invoke the aid of a Great Spirit. Who had used it? Not onc…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3753ery body he came across, but they were none of them the one he sought. A last he came to two little heaps of clay. What was this? These heaps told to him a story. They were fresh. They were composed of the clay that the…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3752hen added to the cunning of the black made a vicious compound, and for many years that compound is all that has been seen of the nature of our autocthonous predecessors. Beneath it is still the gentleness and the softne…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3751of the great delay occasioned by the ancestor who refused to let it go back to where it had fallen from. The roar is the voice of the ancestor who always refuses to go back. When the calm came again it was because the s…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3750ey said, and Arrilla would return with news and the spirit he had seen and spoken with would assist them if they had to fight with any trespassing tribe or family group. Soon after Arrilla joined his people again, havin…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3749and down below his people still wondered what had caused it. They thought it was because Arrilla had met the spirit and was talking to it, and as the shade passed and the sun came out bright again and the gladness that…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3748nd be received by the King. But Arrilla told him to say that a spirit gave him all this information about the sea and the waves, and that while it was being told Arrilla was present. Both forgot their fears of the stran…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3747he sea and lived there all his life he had no story of what it is, nor how it comes to be there, nor why the waves beat on the shore. He advised the strange man to wait until he had gone back and communicated the news t…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3746tfall of someone. lie moved not a muscle. His spears were in the hand that held the shield. The noise ceased. Then the air darkened. There were no clouds, but a great deep shade spread all over the earth. Arrilla looked…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3745-one of sadness and pessimism. The council sat in the dark. Only the fighting men and the priests were in it after all. Arrilla was there. The discussion did not last long, and it all centred upon the tale that Arrilla…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3744g his forces down and get the gain he was after. So the meeting broke up. Arrilla was free. That much he had gained he knew, for he saw very plainly that though he had been always before successful in placating the King…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3743family was beginning to make them impatient. Then he pointed to the highest spot on the range. He told them that in his wanderings there he had seen a spirit. The spirit was not friendly to him, but would be good to any…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3742respond to a summons as unhurriedly as he wished. Arrilla asked to be allowed to speak, and the permission being given, he drew himself erect and waited until he saw that the expectancy of the warriors of the family was…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3741d and no one had seen her going. When daylight came the whole tribe engaged in the search, for it was believed that she could not possibly have gone far, and it was feared that she had received some hurt. She had entere…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3740another hair that took root and became a plant. The rain kept on longer than ever before and there was a great flood, but not any of these hair rushes was destroyed. To-day they grow where the ground is wettest, as well…
This collection contains 1,635 search-ready records. The complete record set remains discoverable through the paginated public record index.