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yowies in Australian urban legends and ghost stories

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2021
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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yowies in Australian urban legends and ghost stories

ABC Religion & Ethics discussed Australian urban legends, including yowies and ghost stories. The article says Yowie stories were shoehorned into a Western hairy-man narrative after the Yeti story of the 1950s, and quotes Dr David Waldron saying ghost stories tell communities about experiences, tra…

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4,147
Year
2,021
Source
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Record ID
4147
Source
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Publication
From yowies to UFOs to panthers, what's the real story behind Australia's urban legends?; ABC Religion & Ethics / God Forbid
Published
2021-08-01
Narrative type
Descriptive Belief Records
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yowies
Archive period
Digital Era
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ABC Religion & Ethics discussed Australian urban legends, including yowies and ghost stories. The article says Yowie stories were shoehorned into a Western hairy-man narrative after the Yeti story of the 1950s, and quotes Dr David Waldron saying ghost stories tell communities about experiences, trauma, risk, behaviour, and injustice.

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