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- spirit in Australian Legends#3735hape passed over. It had long legs that hung down and clawed. The claws were not far above the black man's head. It was distinctly an animal. He could see the body and the neck, the head, the ears and the eyes, but in a…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3734the 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 whi…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3733day he bethought him of the spirits, so he kept a good lookout in order not to miss any signs of the clay with which to draw the marks of the mysticism. Also he killed a white wallaby and plucked off all its fur. When h…
- spirit in Australian Legends#3732he chief. He was determined to find his wife, and he was no less determined to punish the man. Therefore, next day he chose one of his sons to act in his place, and he set out to succeed or die. For many days he travell…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3731sh." They barred the way of the party. Try as they would, no passage through the ranks of the "little men" could be made. So then they turned and followed the flow of the river, and that way no opposition was offered. T…
- spirits in Australian Legends#3730d that when the next great man died--the chief or the doctor or the rainmaker or the clergyman-his best stone axe be buried with him. Then a sorcerer came forward and proclaimed that he would undertake to go to the rive…
- spirit in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#2343eptible impression upon the little community settled there. Both individually and collectively there was an advance. But on no one was the change so marked as on Peter Pinsent Money. Within the tolerant atmosphere by wh…
- spirit in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#2342d still her heart she suddenly sat upright, and, with a look of glad surprise and wonder in her eyes, softly murmured: “Hulloa! . . . Boy!” Those there are would say that, at the last, a dormant cell of memory was unacc…
- devil in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#2341uaint; and witty too! Really, you cannot help laughing in spite of yourself. And she’s as quick as a flash of lightning. So fast, indeed, that you wonder how she gets her thoughts together in such a brief space of time.…
- devil in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#2340And so saying she winked at him in such a confidential way—and yet with such a dare-devil look on her face; that the boy sensed a game, and was instantly ready to play it.
- devil in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#2339“She says the funniest things, you know! Quaint; and witty too! Really, you cannot help laughing in spite of yourself. And she’s as quick as a flash of lightning. So fast, indeed, that you wonder how she gets her though…
- spirit in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2338of escape from him. The impact was severe enough to leave her slightly stunned. It was, therefore, some little time before she could sit up and apprehensively look around for her assailant. To her great joy he was nowhe…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2337a spurt she therefore made for a giant gum tree near at hand, thinking that, by dodging behind it, she could double back and reach the house ahead of him. But he was far too swift of foot, and, just as she reached the t…
- spirit in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2336t “the professor” was very weak; so weak that he could scarcely offer a protest. He himself had been to blame, and he, therefore, ought to meet the costs of attention. As the doctor shook his head the patient murmured t…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2335managed to escape from his grasp. With fear to aid her speed, she turned and ran for the road, hoping that some passer-by might come to her rescue. She had barely started, however, before she realised that he was out-pa…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2334day so that ye can see her!” * * * * * * * Four years prior to the conversation just recorded Donald McIvor, the baker, had asked Nellie Moir, the waitress at the hotel, to marry him. They had been friends from the day…
- fairy in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#2333hums about it at a later stage. The outcome was that two days afterwards the four of them came along, and on Bobby’s urgent appeal the tale was re-read! * * * * * * * The reading of the first story led to remarkable res…
- medicine man in Australian Legends#1919t. At this corroboree the young chief worked himself up into a state of great frenzy and this communicated itself to all those present. He grew passionate with no attempt to check himself. In this way he increased in da…
- medicine man in Australian Legends#1918e of his unusual height. If my conjecture be right, based as it is upon the description brought down by a third generation and the last a white, then this man of unheard-of growth must have been fully eight feet high. H…
- medicine man in Australian Legends#1917erbore them and joined the river. A spirit often came out from that glen. it was speckled with glowing fires that flashed and were covered, and flashed and were covered, over and over again. The spirit was light and eth…
- fairy in Australian Legends#1916fire coming with a mist which is called "pouraller," and burnt stones near Appin were pointed out as a place where this particular mist often covered the country. No doubt the fact that volcanoes emitted fire with steam…
- fairy in Australian Legends#1915hat a great ancestor was one day pushing his way through a jungle on the bank of a creek and a prickled smilax scraped his shoulder. He did not feel pain at first, but after a while, when the perspiration got into the t…
- giant in Australian Legends#1914river gave many hours’ shelter from the burning, blazing sun. That side with the easterly aspect was clothed with many myrtles and much Macrozamia? and Chorizema* and bracken fern. Quite a number of the dainty, feathery…
- giant in Australian Legends#1913ravine. The whole season had been droughty, and the water was hardly running at all. Yet there were holes, and great wide holes too, wherein the water was so deep that no one knew of any tree that would reach down to th…
- giant in Australian Legends#1912ck guides, he was returned to the navy, and his end came to him back in his native England, after being entrusted by the British Government with the task of erecting Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment. Though h…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#1911m beyond the edge of the sea, was just the same as the many white mornings that brought me out of my tent to look at the same sun steadily rising from beyond the horizon down on the New South Wales Coast, somewhere in t…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#1910ina compound at Wahgunyah. He was camped with two gins on a reserve near Burryjaa Station, in N.S.W., and it was with considerable surprise that the writer found him so ready to talk. Like all aborigines who tell things…
- supernatural in Australian Legends#1909sarcasm, and it was hoped that this piece of portrayed scorn would bring some evil to his rival. He would much have preferred to go on with the competition until one or the other had won. He was becoming anxious to secu…
- spirit in Australian Legends#1908he shadow of the tree was impenetrable to the "little men," and a bright star shed a beam to the tortoise. The sorcerer saw that he must die before he could pass the little men and he and his party returned home. He sha…
- giant in Australian Legends#1907who had seen these fairy places and always knew that a continuous stream of spirits passed that way to the Unseen River. Two giant trees grew on the bank, and a tortoise lay athwart it. Up to the time of this happening…
- spirits in Australian Legends#1906y clear about the picture just described. They said that not only had some people spoken to returned men who had waded through the lake and been on the island and climbed the mountain and nearly reached the river, but t…
- spirits in Australian Legends#1905felt strong enough to get up. Close by were the fallen rocks. There was still no way in or out. So the first Gymea or Gigantic Lily came into being, and not long ago men dug under the boulders and found a great heap of…
- spirit in Australian Legends#1904mes, when he had donned the mystic pipe-clay bands, went right up to the spring and talked with it there. When he came back he bore with him beautiful bunches of ferns of many kinds-Hymenophyllum and Asplenium, portions…
- spirit in Australian Legends#1903he side gushed the spring. In dry times It simply was swallowed up in peaty ground beneath the tea-tree and Leptospermum and Ceratopetalums, but in rainy times it o'erbore them and joined the river. A spirit often came…
- spirit in Australian Legends#1902des were far more dense than the steep sides of the river. The Leptospermum flourished there, and waratahs were in crimson splendour. Out from a rock wall at the side gushed the spring. In dry times It simply was swallo…
- spirits in Australian Legends#1901by the rains that fell and the winds that blew. And the way down to the pool was always difficult. None but the priest ever descended there, and when he did he carried with him the flint rod that served as the bell in t…
- little woman in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#1470to recall how he had allowed himself to overhear her most private thoughts and desires. And the more he thought about the matter the more clearly he realised that he “hadn’t played the game!” That—in his Code of Ethics—…
- little woman in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#1469n the corner. Caught sight of your white apron. It seemed a bit homelike, an’ I thought I’d come in an’ ask if I could sleep on your verandah to-night. When I got up to your door I heard you cryin’, so I tip-toed round…
- little woman in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#1468y heard in the garden. Truth to tell, her voice was so carried out, and thus it came about that—during her prayer—into the window casement a head was quietly thrust, and a pair of keen eyes, together with an equally kee…
- ghost in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#1467ickly as possible. When Jim came to the bedside of his wife she received him as quietly as if he had been expected. Molly’s explanations passed unheeded. It was evident that her thoughts as well as her eyes were upon h…
- giant in Tales of the Dandenongs Fourth Series#1466Scott!” “Good-bye! ‘Sunset’” THE boy stood stock still— and listened. He had just imitated a Lyre Bird’s call, and appeared to be waiting for its echo, or a reply. Round about him there was a thick forest. The trees wer…
- spirit in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#1465ther! Every hour, every minute that she remains with me now will be a heartache for both of us. It is better that the parting should take place at once!” These brave words—although quietly spoken—did not hide from Fathe…
- spirit in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#1464is wife and his business came to be shamefully neglected. * * * * * * * * * Unrecognised by either of them, the trouble began as soon as the honeymoon was over. Because of his abilities as an entertainer, invitations to…
- witch in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#1463an be y’r son’s Mother—an’ tend him—an’ do f’r him—an’ love him till ye die!” And, as two big tears of joy welled into her eyes, she added: “Oh! Father in Heav’n! ’Tis thankful I am—wid all me sowl!... Pl’ase don’t let…
- witch in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#1462it!” Kate firmly retorted. And she quickly turned to the counter, picked a ring from the tray and added: “There ye are me honey! Half the price, an’ just as good! Put it on me finger! an’ may the blessin’s av Heav’n fol…
- witch in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#1461So saying—she switched off the light; and with a murmured: “Dear God—Good-night,”—she once more pressed the ring to her lips, and so fell asleep!!!
- witch in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#1460That night—after a most wonderful day—Kate lay in bed thinking of her good fortune. She had not switched off the electric light, and—looking at the ring as it shone upon her finger—she whispered to herself:
- spirit in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#1459These brave words—although quietly spoken—did not hide from Father Greenhill the deep emotional strain under which Mrs. Britten laboured in giving them utterance. Her entirely unselfish attitude revealed a spirit of gen…
- spirit in Tales of the Dandenongs Third Series#1458Unrecognised by either of them, the trouble began as soon as the honeymoon was over. Because of his abilities as an entertainer, invitations to social gatherings poured upon them. This manifestation of friendliness and…
- fairy in Tales of the Dandenongs Second Series#1457h below. Strange conformations and singular markings he was able to see—and perhaps slightly emphasise— in all manner of things. In his house were sticks and stones and roots; feathers and eggs and bark—besides other bu…
- little woman in Tales of the Dandenongs First Series#1414ys. Not infrequently they turned their thoughts to pleasure: sometimes in company with others. Thus it was that, on a certain Sunday, they joined a number of their “pals” in a char-a-banc picnic to Belgrave. About mid-d…
- witch in Fairy Tales from Australia#1413the wicked witch walks, and when she is angry there are great streaks of fire in them, but whoever finds that stone finds bad luck too.” “I don’t like dark colours,” said the little mermaid. “I should like to make blue…
- witch in Fairy Tales from Australia#1412n kisses good morning to Mother Sea it is rosy pink, and when he kisses her ‘goodnight’ it is fiery crimson.” “Well, this is a very wicked witch,” said the bird, “and she sits on the top of a rock and makes black opals.…
- witch in Fairy Tales from Australia#1411! Why, it’s a colour. Oh! no it isn’t a colour, but it’s a sort of colour.” “I have never seen any colour called black,” said the little mermaid. “Where I live it is all blue and green and silver and gold, and when the…
- witch in Fairy Tales from Australia#1410in a most beautiful country, where everything is gold.” “Oh! I want to see it all,” she cried, “and I am only a little mermaid; I can’t walk or fly. Dear lyre bird, take me up on your back, and let me fly with you all o…
- wizard in Australian Fairy Tales#1409hrough the garden they advanced Making for the Lawn! On they came! The Emus stately, Proudly, quietly, sedately; Followed by the Herons fine! Wombats, Wallabys and Dingoes; Grey Companion-Flamingoes;— ’Keets and Lories…
- spirit in Australian Fairy Tales#1408arching songs, as a rule, have a very brightening effect upon the singers. Words and music are alike intended to bring this about. Knowing this to be the case, and realising that as the long day stretched itself out, ma…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1407he had, unthinkingly, left the carriage to get some flowers. Now, strewn about the desert over which she had been dragged, they all lay dead! The Prince at once resolved that she should have some others to take their pl…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1406l sound asleep; or, to be quite accurate, all were asleep except the few guards posted at fairly distant intervals along the outer edges of the camp. Their duty was to watch out for any attack by possible enemies, such…
- spirit in Australian Fairy Tales#1405upon all who drink of them; for though the Prince had not said a word about it, they contain certain life-giving properties which bring to those who drink them the most enchanting results. It is because of these peculia…
- spirit in Australian Fairy Tales#1404indrops, and as these are very heavy for such wee folk to carry—especially in the teeth of a hot driving wind—they were somewhat longer in coming up than they should have been. Nevertheless they were not too late, and,…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1403ourse of fifteen or twenty minutes— just as the stars began to peep at them through the gently swaying tree tops—they were all sound asleep; or, to be quite accurate, all were asleep except the few guards posted at fair…
- giant in Australian Fairy Tales#1402nts and Giant Killers. It is the world we knew so well when we, too, walked with fearful joy amid its mystic, thrilling groves. To dull and prosaic souls it does not exist, for, lacking imagination, they walk in outer d…
- spirit in Australian Fairy Tales#1401ed until the next day. Then, in the highest possible spirits, they set about their final march, singing with the greatest gusto as they went their famous marching chorus:— Left! Right! Left! Right! Soon will come the co…
- fairies in Australian Fairy Tales#1400though they do not vomit fire, as did the dreadful dragon of our childhood, one feels that, given a sporting chance, they would make that boastful beast curl up like a salted worm. As for the other Fairies, everybody wi…
- fairies in Australian Fairy Tales#1399very delightful beings, have had their habitat in far-off lands. Thanks to the researches of Mr. Hume Cook, we are now able to wander through the enchanted Bush with real Australian Fairy Princes and Princesses; share i…
- fairies in Australian Fairy Tales#1398outer darkness. Those fairy forms—so real to the vivid mind—are to them but the shadows of trees in the flickering light of the moon. Hitherto, the Fairies we have known, though very delightful beings, have had their ha…
- fairies in Australian Fairy Tales#1397t is the world in which the children of all the world live: the world of Bogies and Dragons, Fairy Princes and Princesses, Giants and Giant Killers. It is the world we knew so well when we, too, walked with fearful joy…
- fairy in Australian Fairy Tales#1396You are one of those who are not privileged to pass its magic portals. But it is a very real world for all that. It may indeed turn out to be no less real than this, which is the only one you deem worth knowing, and whi…
- fairy in Australian Fairy Tales#1395he Grape Vine’s Story When the Stork Called The Raindrop’s Story The Door Mat’s Story Clover Perfume’s Story Music’s Story The Moon’s Garden Party Preface The Stories in this little book have been set down almost in the…
- fairy in Australian Fairy Tales#1394Australian Fairy Tales Title: Australian Fairy Tales Author: Hume Cook eBook No.: 2100331h.html Language: English Date first posted: July 2021 Most recent update: July 2021 This eBook was produced by: Walter Moore View…
- fairy in Australian Fairy Tales#1393Australian Fairy Tales Title: Australian Fairy Tales Author: Hume Cook eBook No.: 2100331h.html Language: English Date first posted: July 2021 Most recent update: July 2021 This eBook was produced by: Walter Moore View…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2407water and tightened the lashings of the raft as well as he was able. It was a long, dreary night, especially after the moon went down. Fortunately it was warm and fine. Indeed, throughout that trying time of flood, curi…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2406elt. It was the first time she had ever used that name when addressing him, and her voice sounded so inexpressibly sweet that, without even glancing at Bridget, he turned and took the girl in his arms and kissed her, a…
- giant in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2405heard before. But he persevered; and, bringing a couple of men from the township fifty miles away, set them to work. Dead Finish was situated at the extreme head of one of those short Australian coastal rivers whose exi…
- fairy in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2404e of it, I seen—I seen—’ but here he paused dead for want of a vocabulary. ‘Well, thick-head, an’ wot was it ye seed—yer own hugly shadder, I s’pose?’ said Mrs Brown, as she caught up and slapped the baby playing with a…
- devil in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2403lin’ o’ oor money! An’ a’ for a wheen dukes an’ a crackit heid! Na, na! Tell the skirlin’ fule I’ll gie him fifty dollars, and that’s mair than a’ his gear’s worth. I’ll gang to preesin suner than pay as muckle siller a…
- devil in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2402the boys, had rushed on deck. ‘Come here, four hands, and clear away the life-boat.’ ‘Don’t be a fool, Mr Sparkes!’ shouted the skipper, still struggling with the widow, who had got one hand in his long beard and was pu…
- devil in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2401er as owns ’em’s a flash blackfeller shearer. I had a pitch with him the night afore an’ he reckons as how he’d just cut out ov a big shed on the Marthaguy. So I sez to myself, “You’re good enough, ole chap, fer a fiver…
- bunyip in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2400Stories BY JOHN ARTHUR BARRY _WITH INTRODUCTORY VERSES_ BY RUDYARD KIPLING _NEW EDITION_ _Author of “In the Great Deep,” “The Luck of the Native Born,” “A Son of the Sea,” “Red Lion and Blue Star,” “Old and New Sydney,”…
- spirit in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2399ne of the stiff arms, I shook the unresponsive hand in silent farewell, and paddled back towards the flame that marked my islet, actually feeling envious of the quiet corpse. Misfortune makes us sadly selfish, and so li…
- spirit in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2398wning men will clutch at straws! This one, indeed, was soon to fail me; for presently, to my utter despair, the noise of tumultuous waters ahead gave warning of another cataract—another, or the same one, for, what with…
- spirits in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2397by sheets of galvanised iron, supported on trestles, waits, manuscript in hand, still in a rather unsettled state of mind, the Reverend Spicer. The place is dimly lit by flaring candles and slush lamps, and is crowded b…
- spirit in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2396Aberdeen, and habitually comes ashore in latitude 0 with a Glengarry cap on, no umbrella, and naked feet, is not a being to stand argument. One night the moon rose full, and right aft. She rose, too, with a big black sp…
- spirit in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2395th the death-film. And he lay there and watched me, staring fixedly. It was a bright sunshiny day, the birds were singing cheerily about us, and the wash of the sea was very faint. From the expression on his face I thou…
- ghost in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2394y price. In fact, you couldn’t give ’em away in those times. ‘The Fairleighs an’, I think, all of us, were pretty much in the same box. As I said before, it was time somethin’ turned up. ‘It was a wild night. Bill an’ m…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2393n the morning. ‘There goes your aged friend,’ said a voice at my shoulder, which made me start with the unexpectedness of it. ‘Too hot and close to sleep,’ explained Treloar. ‘Come out for a breath of air.’ ‘Let’s sheph…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2392Rainbow weren’t the chaps to leave much behind ’em. Leastways’—he quickly added, seeing his mistake, ‘so I’ve heerd say.’ Treloar gave me a look which meant ‘How now?’ but neither of us took further notice. ‘I’ve heard…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2391the tomb! Why ’tis, in some sort, the story of our corporal life and death! ‘“Over the Mountains of the Moon, Down the Vale of Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,” the shade replied, “For there lies El Dorado.” Behold, my friend…
- ghost in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2390stood stock still, fascinated by the spectacle. The female ones shrieked, and a couple fainted. But louder and higher than any of them shrieked the widow, who had got both arms around the skipper’s neck, to which she hu…
- ghosts in Steve Brown's Bunyip#2389the fire. Her hearth is wide to every gust That gars the dead ash spin— And tide by tide and ’twixt the tides Her sons go out and in. [Out in great mirth that do desire Hazard of trackless ways, In wi’ great peace to wa…
- Charlton, New South Wales 1923#85Public AYR report page for Charlton, New South Wales 1923. Source-stated location: Charlton, New South Wales (West of Oberon).. Event field: Yowie Sighting. Body excerpt retained for review: Source: No details, clipping…
- ghost in Australia Felix#3962d said: "What's the matter, dear? Are you ill?" In replying to her he disturbed the children, the door of whose room stood ajar; and by the time quiet was restored, further sleep was out of the question. He dressed and…
- spirit in Australia Felix#3040this hole, the party that worked it made off for the nearest grog-shop, to wet their throats to the memory of the dead, and to discuss future plans. All but one: a lean and haggard-looking man of some five and forty, wh…
- phantom in Australia Felix#3039s. And he saw a figure that looked like his the centre of a boisterous crowd; saw himself slapped on the back by dirty hands, shouting and shouted to drinks. He turned his pillow, to drive the image away. Whatever he ha…
- phantom in Australia Felix#3038w her out, by being kind and encouraging. Instead of which he had acted towards her, he felt convinced, like an ill-mannered boor. He did not know how it was, but he couldn't detach his thoughts from Polly this evening:…
- apparition in Australia Felix#3037had adapted herself implicitly--but this came easy; for she was sure everything Richard did was right, and that his way of looking at things was the one and only way. So there was no room for discord between them. By th…
- apparition in Australia Felix#3036d curt. Having himself stowed the things inside the bar and borrowed a lantern, he drew his wife's arm through his, and hurried her away. It was pitch-dark, and the ground was wet and squelchy. Their feet sank in the mu…
- apparition in Australia Felix#3035vered the distance in a trifle over six hours. He had evidently hit on the family washing-day. The big boiler in the yard belched clouds of steam; the female inmates of the Hotel were gathered in the out-house: he saw t…
- apparition in Australia Felix#3034vegetable-garden, where the drab and tangled growths that had outlived the summer were beaten flat by the recent rains. At the foot of the garden, behind a clump of gooseberry-bushes, stood an arbour formed of a yellow…