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
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- 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
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- 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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