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Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales

YEAR
1896
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Project Gutenberg
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Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales

ed and swallowed by two kurreahs. Having swallowed the girls, the kurreahs dived into an opening in the side of the spring, which was the entrance to an underground watercourse leading to the Narran River. Through this passage they went, taking all the water from the spring with them into the Narra…

Record ID
2,450
Year
1,896
Source
Project Gutenberg
Index status
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Record ID
2450
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies; K. Langloh Parker
Published
1896; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
Byamee
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
North-western New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
Source voice
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ed and swallowed by two kurreahs. Having swallowed the girls, the kurreahs dived into an opening in the side of the spring, which was the entrance to an underground watercourse leading to the Narran River. Through this passage they went, taking all the water from the spring with them into the Narran, whose course they also dried as they went along. Meantime Byamee, unwitting the fate of his wives, was honey hunting. He had followed the bee with the white feather on it for some distance; then the bee flew on to some budtha flowers, and would move no further. Byamee said, "Something has happened, or the bee would not stay here and.

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