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devil in More Australian Legendary Tales

YEAR
1898
PLACE
New South Wales
SOURCE
Internet Archive
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devil in More Australian Legendary Tales

e and fell in wave-like cadences. In their grief they cut their heads with muggil or stone knives, and comeboos or tomahawks, until the blood ran down staining their breasts red, and the breasts of the Guineeboo have been red ever since. Gayardaree the Platypus A YOUNG duck used to swim away by her…

Record ID
3,089
Year
1,898
Source
Internet Archive
Index status
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Record ID
3089
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
More Australian Legendary Tales; K. Langloh Parker
Published
1898 public-domain folklore collection exposed through an exact Internet Archive item
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
devil
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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e and fell in wave-like cadences. In their grief they cut their heads with muggil or stone knives, and comeboos or tomahawks, until the blood ran down staining their breasts red, and the breasts of the Guineeboo have been red ever since. Gayardaree the Platypus A YOUNG duck used to swim away by herself in the creek. Her tribe told her that MuUoka, the water devil, would catch her some day if she were so venturesome. But she did not heed them. One day after having swum down some distance, she landed on a bank where she saw some young green grass. She was feeding about when suddenly out rushed from a hidden place Biggoon, an immense.

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