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witch in Fairy Tales from Australia

YEAR
1925
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Project Gutenberg Australia
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witch in Fairy Tales from Australia

in a most beautiful country, where everything is gold.” “Oh! I want to see it all,” she cried, “and I am only a little mermaid; I can’t walk or fly. Dear lyre bird, take me up on your back, and let me fly with you all over this beautiful golden world.” “Alas! I dare not take you,” said the lyre bir…

Record ID
1,410
Year
1,925
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
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Record ID
1410
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
Australian Fairy Tales and related Australian tale books; Hume Cook / Ethel Buckland
Published
1925
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
witch
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
Source voice
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Publicness
Public Domain Public Web

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in a most beautiful country, where everything is gold.” “Oh! I want to see it all,” she cried, “and I am only a little mermaid; I can’t walk or fly. Dear lyre bird, take me up on your back, and let me fly with you all over this beautiful golden world.” “Alas! I dare not take you,” said the lyre bird, “for this country is under the power of the wicked black witch.” “What is black?” she asked. “Black! Why, it’s a colour. Oh! no it isn’t a colour, but it’s a sort of colour.” “I have never seen any colour called black,” said the little mermaid. “Where I live it is all blue and green and silver and gold, and when the sun kisses good.

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