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spirit in Australian Legends

YEAR
1925
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SOURCE
Internet Archive
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spirit in Australian Legends

the river until it joined the great sheet of water. That sheet was either the sea or a very great lake. How far from the head waters of the Murrumbidgee the sheet of water lay we cannot guess, but from the manner in which the tale was told it seemed a very long way. It seemed to take longer than on…

Record ID
3,734
Year
1,925
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3734
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Australian Legends; C. W. Peck
Published
1925
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
spirit
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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the river until it joined the great sheet of water. That sheet was either the sea or a very great lake. How far from the head waters of the Murrumbidgee the sheet of water lay we cannot guess, but from the manner in which the tale was told it seemed a very long way. It seemed to take longer than one man's life to get there. But the blacks believed that the Spirit prolonged the lives at least of the three so that the wrong might be righted and the sky might be lifted up. So the day came when the chief saw the two he was following. They were camped upon the edge of the lake. No bloodwood grew there, but in the ages before other.

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