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Moodai in Australian Legendary Tales

YEAR: 1896
PLACE: New South Wales
SOURCE: Project Gutenberg

perhaps know them as the Pleiades, but the black fellows call them the Meamei. 11. THE COOKOOBURRAHS AND THE GOOLAHGOOL Googarh, the iguana, was married to Moodai, the opossum and Cookooburrah, the laughing jackass. Cookooburrah was the mother of three sons, one grown up and living away from her, the other two only little boys. They had their camps near a goolahgool, whence they obtained water. A goolahgool is a water-holding tree, of the iron bark or box species. It is a tree with a split in the fork of it, and hollow below the fork. After heavy rain, this hollow trunk would be full of water, which water would have run into it.

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Moodai in Australian Legendary Tales

perhaps know them as the Pleiades, but the black fellows call them the Meamei. 11. THE COOKOOBURRAHS AND THE GOOLAHGOOL Googarh, the iguana, was married to Moodai, the opossum and Cookooburrah, the laughing jackass. Cookooburrah was the mother of three sons, one grown up and living away from her, t…

Record ID: 2,465
Year: 1,896
Source: Project Gutenberg
Index status: Archive detail (not indexed)

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Record ID: 2465
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: Moodai
Archive period: Federation Era
Location: North-western New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory: NSW
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Publicness: Public Domain Public Web

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perhaps know them as the Pleiades, but the black fellows call them the Meamei. 11. THE COOKOOBURRAHS AND THE GOOLAHGOOL Googarh, the iguana, was married to Moodai, the opossum and Cookooburrah, the laughing jackass. Cookooburrah was the mother of three sons, one grown up and living away from her, the other two only little boys. They had their camps near a goolahgool, whence they obtained water. A goolahgool is a water-holding tree, of the iron bark or box species. It is a tree with a split in the fork of it, and hollow below the fork. After heavy rain, this hollow trunk would be full of water, which water would have run into it.

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