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supernatural in Australian Legends

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1925
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Internet Archive
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supernatural in Australian Legends

, and how to put it out! Now the blacks had for ages used the stem of the waratah to enwrap any hot thing they wished to handle. They said that it entirely prevented burns. In the earliest days of white occupancy of Australia they brought these stems to blacksmiths and told them that they could nev…

Record ID
3,770
Year
1,925
Source
Internet Archive
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Record ID
3770
Source
Internet Archive
Publication
Australian Legends; C. W. Peck
Published
1925
Narrative type
Spirit-Person Narratives
Public-text label
supernatural
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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, and how to put it out! Now the blacks had for ages used the stem of the waratah to enwrap any hot thing they wished to handle. They said that it entirely prevented burns. In the earliest days of white occupancy of Australia they brought these stems to blacksmiths and told them that they could never be injured by fire from the anvils, which they took to be supernatural fire such as that seen in the heavens when there is a meteor travelling there, if they used them, and to please the natives the blacksmiths did use them and paid in those showy trifles that the natives valued, for them. Seizing a couple of waratah stems, leaves and.

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