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spirit in More Australian Legendary Tales

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

, returned from placing the balah trees and the Wurrawilberoo in the sky, the Daens asked them if they had left her there. No Bralgah they said had gone to the sky. Surely the Daens had seen Wurrawilberoo let her go. Then where was she ? That no one could say, and none thought of asking the big bir…

Record ID
3,189
Year
1,898
Source
Internet Archive
Index status
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Record ID
3189
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
spirit
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
New South Wales (NSW): B
State or territory
NSW
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, returned from placing the balah trees and the Wurrawilberoo in the sky, the Daens asked them if they had left her there. No Bralgah they said had gone to the sky. Surely the Daens had seen Wurrawilberoo let her go. Then where was she ? That no one could say, and none thought of asking the big bird on the plain. All mourned for Bralgah as for one dead. Her spirit, they said, would haunt the camp because they could not find her body to bury it, though they knew she must be dead, otherwise would she not return to them ? They moved their camp away to the other side of the plain. After a while they noticed that a number of birds,.

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