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Bunjil in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

YEAR
1880
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
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Bunjil in Kamilaroi and Kurnai

hey expected was that the victim, where- ever he might be, should rise and walk to them in a trance — "like it * Named from the barn — the casuarina. Two varieties occur — one, C. sithero^a, having an erect, and the other, C i/uicdrivalvifi, a pendent hal>it. The former is locally known as He-oak,…

Record ID
1,605
Year
1,880
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1605
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Kamilaroi and Kurnai; Lorimer Fison and A. W. Howitt
Published
1880
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
Bunjil
Archive period
Gold Rush Colonial
Location
New South Wales and Victoria (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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hey expected was that the victim, where- ever he might be, should rise and walk to them in a trance — "like it * Named from the barn — the casuarina. Two varieties occur — one, C. sithero^a, having an erect, and the other, C i/uicdrivalvifi, a pendent hal>it. The former is locally known as He-oak, the latter as She-oak. The He-oak is barn. BIRRAARKS AND THE GHOSTS. 253 sleep." On entering the magic circle, the Bunjil barn are supposed to throw pieces of the He-oak wood at him. He is believed then to fall, and the magicians are supposed to cut out his tongue and send him home to die. Briithen Munji, the "other father" of Tulaba, is.

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