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
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- 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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- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
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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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