ghost in Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages
as I can judge it means — Come and sing with me ; there are plenty ; come and sing.) VIII. The next ugal was apparently composed for the chase. Diga diga burula, Plenty of wild dogs. Murrinj, dibura. The blackfellows are spearing them. 150 BAO-ILLI — SONGS. IX. The following bao-illi was new and fa…
- Record ID
- 3,941
- Year
- 1,875
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Index status
- Public search-ready
This page records what a public source contains. It is not verification of the supernatural claim described by that source.
Record context
- Record ID
- 3941
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Publication
- Kamilaroi, and other Australian languages; William Ridley
- Published
- 1875
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghost
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- New South Wales and Queensland (QLD): B
- State or territory
- QLD
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Text Item
Source-grounded excerpt
as I can judge it means — Come and sing with me ; there are plenty ; come and sing.) VIII. The next ugal was apparently composed for the chase. Diga diga burula, Plenty of wild dogs. Murrinj, dibura. The blackfellows are spearing them. 150 BAO-ILLI — SONGS. IX. The following bao-illi was new and fashionable on the Namoi, in 1871. Bukkamulli mullimulli, The ghost was skinning him, duburrjer wine. he doubled him up and let him fall. They sing these short songs to simple and pleasant melodies. Sometimes they repeat the first line six or eight times, sometimes the last ; and as they repeat they let their voices fall to a lower key,.
The excerpt is presented as public-source context. Terminology belongs to the cited source and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.
Browse this record
Related public records
- ghost in Queensland, Australia#1763led her to suspect the reality of the white man's relationship to her family ; for she actually instigated her husband to murder Darumboy in revenge for the loss of her dog I This, it seems, the old man was not indispos…
- ghost in Queensland, Australia#1765lf being situated on the elevated point of land already men- tioned, and commanding a beautiful view of the bay with its fine scenery all round. But— ** * Every leaf was at rest, and I heard not a sound ' from the uninh…
- ghost in Queensland, Australia#1766nciliated their affections once more, and succeeded in keeping the peace. In regard to the word Mawgooy^ I may mention, as an additional illustration- of the singular diversity of languages among the aborigines of Austr…
- ghost in Queensland, Australia#1767he Australian dialects. There are at least twenty-five different dialects spoken within 200 miles' radius of Brisbane. " Turrubul *' is spoken at Brisbane, and " Dippil " about the Glasshouse mountains, sixty miles nort…
- ghost in Human Repetends#2261lose her before a word could pass between us, appeared to give me the right to seek to know more of her. The proud queen of many a fantastic dream-revel; the sad chatelaine of many an air-built castle; had this portrait…
- ghost in Tales of Australian Life#1998inquire, it is not. If you think I'd ask one of them to-morrow one breath of a io6 Marie Denton. question about the reports that are going, you're mistaken — 'tsht ! " Miss Bertram snapped her fingers with an air of utt…