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Mullyan in The Making of Medicine Men

YEAR: 1905
PLACE: New South Wales
SOURCE: Wikisource

o various totems, and the rains are claimed by the totem whose wind it was that blew it up. If a storm comes up without wind it belongs to Bohrah, the kangaroo. The big mountainous clouds when they come from the south-west are said to be Mullyan, the eagle-hawk, who makes the south-west wind claimed by Maira, paddy melon totem, one of whose multiplex totems Mullyan is. The crow keeps the cold west wind in a hollow log, as she was too fond of blowing up hurricanes; she escapes sometimes, but the crow hunts her back. But they say the log is rotting and she will get away yet, when there will be great wreckage and quite a change in.

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Mullyan in The Making of Medicine Men

o various totems, and the rains are claimed by the totem whose wind it was that blew it up. If a storm comes up without wind it belongs to Bohrah, the kangaroo. The big mountainous clouds when they come from the south-west are said to be Mullyan, the eagle-hawk, who makes the south-west wind claime…

Record ID: 1,374
Year: 1,905
Source: Wikisource
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Record ID: 1374
Source: Wikisource
Publication: The Euahlayi Tribe; K. Langloh Parker
Published: 1905
Narrative type: Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label: Mullyan
Archive period: Federation Era
Location: North-western New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory: NSW
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Publicness: Public Domain Public Web

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o various totems, and the rains are claimed by the totem whose wind it was that blew it up. If a storm comes up without wind it belongs to Bohrah, the kangaroo. The big mountainous clouds when they come from the south-west are said to be Mullyan, the eagle-hawk, who makes the south-west wind claimed by Maira, paddy melon totem, one of whose multiplex totems Mullyan is. The crow keeps the cold west wind in a hollow log, as she was too fond of blowing up hurricanes; she escapes sometimes, but the crow hunts her back. But they say the log is rotting and she will get away yet, when there will be great wreckage and quite a change in.

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