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fairy in Australian Legends

YEAR
1925
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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fairy in Australian Legends

hat a great ancestor was one day pushing his way through a jungle on the bank of a creek and a prickled smilax scraped his shoulder. He did not feel pain at first, but after a while, when the perspiration got into the tiny cuts, he became very angry, believing that he was bewitched. As well as bein…

Record ID
1,915
Year
1,925
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
1915
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Australian Legends; C. W. Peck
Published
1925
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
fairy
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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hat a great ancestor was one day pushing his way through a jungle on the bank of a creek and a prickled smilax scraped his shoulder. He did not feel pain at first, but after a while, when the perspiration got into the tiny cuts, he became very angry, believing that he was bewitched. As well as being angry he was frightened. He had a firm belief in a sort of fairy or goblin which he knew as a "wullundigong," which signifies a "little man of the bush!" He stopped at the foot of a big tree, and peered up amongst its branches and leaves to see if he could detect any of these little men. He did not wait long, for he was not at all.

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