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old man in Australian Legendary Tales

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

ss nyunnoos, more than twenty. He made fires before each, to make it look as if some one lived in the nyunnoos. First he would go into one nyunnoo, or humpy, and cry like a baby, then to another and laugh like a child, then in turn, as he went the round of the humpies he would sing like a maiden, corrobboree like a man, call out in a quavering voice like an old man, and in a shrill voice like an old woman; in fact, imitate any sort of voice he had ever heard, and imitate them so quickly in succession that any one passing would think there was a great crowd of blacks in that camp. His object was to entice as many strange black.

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old man in Australian Legendary Tales

ss nyunnoos, more than twenty. He made fires before each, to make it look as if some one lived in the nyunnoos. First he would go into one nyunnoo, or humpy, and cry like a baby, then to another and laugh like a child, then in turn, as he went the round of the humpies he would sing like a maiden, c…

Record ID: 2,494
Year: 1,896
Source: Project Gutenberg
Index status: Archive detail (not indexed)

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Record ID: 2494
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: old man
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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ss nyunnoos, more than twenty. He made fires before each, to make it look as if some one lived in the nyunnoos. First he would go into one nyunnoo, or humpy, and cry like a baby, then to another and laugh like a child, then in turn, as he went the round of the humpies he would sing like a maiden, corrobboree like a man, call out in a quavering voice like an old man, and in a shrill voice like an old woman; in fact, imitate any sort of voice he had ever heard, and imitate them so quickly in succession that any one passing would think there was a great crowd of blacks in that camp. His object was to entice as many strange black.

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