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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

im a shell, one of those he had picked up on the beach. These shells were afterwards the cause of many fights, one tribe trying to get them from the other. The oldest wirreenun of the tribe always wore one of them at the great corroborees. After many generations had passed away, one wirreenun, in w…

Record ID
3,196
Year
1,898
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3196
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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im a shell, one of those he had picked up on the beach. These shells were afterwards the cause of many fights, one tribe trying to get them from the other. The oldest wirreenun of the tribe always wore one of them at the great corroborees. After many generations had passed away, one wirreenun, in whose possession it was, put it for safety in his Minggah, or spirit tree. And to this day there are fights about it, for he died leaving it there. Some tribes try to steal it, but others fight to protect it. Every now and then on his road home Wurrunnah had to stay and make fresh bags to carry the salt water in, as the old ones started.

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