devil in Australian Legendary Tales
ks was fixed on this fight, there came a strange, whizzing, whirring noise from the scrub round. The women and children shrank together, for the sudden, uncanny noise frightened them. And they knew that it was made by the spirits who were coming to assist at the initiation of the boys into young ma…
- Record ID
- 2,489
- Year
- 1,896
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 2489
- 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
- devil
- 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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ks was fixed on this fight, there came a strange, whizzing, whirring noise from the scrub round. The women and children shrank together, for the sudden, uncanny noise frightened them. And they knew that it was made by the spirits who were coming to assist at the initiation of the boys into young manhood. The noise really sounded, if you had not the dread of spirits in your mind, just as if some one had a circular piece of wood at the end of a string and were whirling it round and round. As the noise went on, the women said, in an awestricken tone, "Gurraymy," that is "borah devil," and clutched their children tighter to them. The.
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