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e post herself and carried it in. These posts are painted red, black, and white, with a snaky pattern, the Kurreah sign, on them. She also planted in my garden two other witch-poles, one painted red and having a cross-bar about midway down it from which raddled strings were attached to the top; thi…
- Record ID
- 1,447
- Year
- 1,905
- Source
- Wikisource
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- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 1447
- Source
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- Publication
- The Euahlayi Tribe; K. Langloh Parker
- Published
- 1905
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- devil
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- North-western New South Wales (NSW): B
- State or territory
- NSW
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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e post herself and carried it in. These posts are painted red, black, and white, with a snaky pattern, the Kurreah sign, on them. She also planted in my garden two other witch-poles, one painted red and having a cross-bar about midway down it from which raddled strings were attached to the top; this was to keep away the Euloowayi, black fellows possessed of devils, who came from behind the sunset. The other was a plain red-painted, tapering pine-pole which she said, when it fell to the ground, would tell of the death of some one related to an inmate of the house. Should it lean towards the house it foretold misfortune; or if she.
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