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- 1906 - Cowan NSW Yowie Article#872Public AYR report page for 1906 - Cowan NSW Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Cowan, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: Regarding a Sighting at Cowan on the Hawkesbury River, NSW i…
- 1906 - Bega Budget Yowie Article#871Public AYR report page for 1906 - Bega Budget Yowie Article. Location cue from public page title/path: Bega, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: # eden, gorilla
- 1906 - Singleton Argus#698Public AYR report page for 1906 - Singleton Argus. Location cue from public page title/path: Singleton, New South Wales. Body excerpt retained for review: The Tantanoola tiger appears to be taking a rest for a time, for…
- little woman in The Last Chance#2617d, and it rains once in five years here, don’t y’know? Droll country—no rain, no grass, no grain; grows nothing but gold. That’s good enough, though. Won’t we talk to them when we get to the little village, eh? Now what…
- giant in The Last Chance#2616ar of his age, with a white hat turned up with green, green spectacles, and long brown leather gaiters, wore a dog-whistle round his neck, and had all over the air of as resolute a devotee as the gay captain of Huntly B…
- giant in The Last Chance#2615wed upon it; the streams of Ettrick and Gala Water, winding silverly through valley and meadow, before losing themselves in Tweed’s fair river, worthy of all poetic praise. But, truth to tell, they were disappointed wit…
- wizard in The Last Chance#2614t cross the moors to Hawkstone Craig, but proceeded by the more modern route of Keighley and Sheffield. Behold the pilgrims then, by the kind offices of the steam king, whose miracles Sir Walter regarded with ‘half-prou…
- witch in The Last Chance#2613And if there be, by a miracle, so much as one left to him, who once had many, what power can he have had?’ ‘The power of the golden key,’ said the sea-rover, looking around, as he spoke, upon wave and sky, as the freshe…
- devil in The Last Chance#2612way, just like a chap I _did_ hear once, as I come on just in time to give him a bite and a sup, and save his precious life. How he was a-talkin’ and goin’ on! I heard him a matter of half a mile afore I got to him. He…
- ghost in The Last Chance#2611erious feminine sympathy which at all weddings finds relief in tears. THE END _Printed by_ R. & R. Clark, Limited, _Edinburgh_. THE NOVELS OF ROLF BOLDREWOOD. THE GHOST CAMP; or, The Avengers. Crown 8vo. 6s. _Crown 8vo.…
- wizard in The Last Chance#2610ting, magical memories of the Wizard of the North. They gazed with awe, and almost adoration, at the towers and turrets, pinnacles and mouldings of the famous abode of the more famous owner and designer. It seemed to th…
- wizard in The Last Chance#2609ded with ‘half-proud, half-sad, half-angry, and half-pleased feelings,’ landed within walking distance of Abbotsford, and its haunting, magical memories of the Wizard of the North. They gazed with awe, and almost adorat…
- spirit in The Last Chance#2608in which, owing to the extravagance of one generation and the apathetic indifference of the next, had gradually declined, and was now lost to the family for ever. However, his Lordship’s persistent advocacy of their cla…
- spirit in The Last Chance#2607all of us, indeed!’ she exclaimed more than once. ‘I think you and I, Arnold, enjoy the whole thing nearly as much as they do—the foreign surroundings, the verification of old history and legend, the aloofness of all th…
- phantom in The Last Chance#2606es_; what strange movement of the hour hand of fate had brought her to the often distasteful work, the dire climatic hardships of a hospital nurse on a West Australian goldfield? Who could doubt her stainless purity who…
- spirit in The Last Chance#2605helpful in aid, as far as their means allowed. Fond of amusement in a rational way, they joined in all the social and public entertainments with a cordiality which notably tended towards their success—pecuniary or other…
- spirits in The Last Chance#2604till, again, the departure from these new delights to a distant, untried region, a strange environment, an unknown society, was proportionately distasteful. But the Bannerets were an adaptable race: they soon familiaris…
- spirit in The Last Chance#2603er miner, experience in California, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. His name was sufficient among the mining community to account for any fortunate discovery in the world of metals. It was not the first, by a…
- spirits in The Last Chance#2602and resolving to see it out before they turn their backs on this Eldorado of the West. Particularly the Honourable Denzil, who is a born explorer and pathfinder. He will make his mark, if I mistake not, before he is man…
- phantom in The Last Chance#2601e, equally free from doubt or fear—the sweet, sad eyes which so rarely gave token of the spirit-light which illumined them, at rarest moments, ‘like melancholy stars,’ of which Mrs. Banneret said they always reminded he…
- phantom in The Last Chance#2600ee. Some of it was available for camel food; but, in a general way, it appeared to the Commissioner as a land accursed of God and man—unfitted for providing sustenance for man or beast. As the night dragged through, he…
- apparition in The Last Chance#2599great world’s great events published at breakfast time from day to day. On the other hand, to quote dear Sir Walter, “a sun-scorched desert, brown and bare”—and here come the camels to fill in the picture!’ As she spoke…
- apparition in The Last Chance#2598nty; he is awake and alert now, if ever—his senses have _not_ played him false—there _is_ a tent, at no very great distance, and sitting by it, on a box, is a man smoking, while another appears to be putting together ar…
- haunted in The Last Chance#2597he wide Pacific, or the influence of a new country, had apparently neutralised the malediction, for the Australian Laidlaws, now a fairly numerous clan, are in all cases held in respect, as well for their high character…
- ghost in The Last Chance#2596lly, as amid the melodious crash of the ‘Wedding March,’ Reggie Banneret and she walked out as wedded pair, the friends of both families, and even mere acquaintances, seemed infected with that mysterious feminine sympat…
- ghosts in The Last Chance#2595, or whatever it is to be—is finally decided upon. It can’t be so very dreadful after all.’ ‘Dreadful!’ cried Vanda; ‘it’s delicious. I’ll undertake the dairy—and we must have lots of lovely tiles, and such cream-pans,…
- ghosts in The Last Chance#2594re. Their gait was slow and faltering; with weak, tremulous steps they seemed as though doubtful of their ability to reach the point from which to survey the ocean—to look, if better was not to be had, upon the highway…
- devil in The Crime of the Under Seas#2227d before I knew what he was about had whipped a razor from his pocket and was trying for my throat. I was too startled by the suddenness of it all to cry out, but not sufficiently so as to be unable to defend myself. I…
- devil in The Crime of the Under Seas#2226DIAN QUEEN SHEILAH McLEOD FAREWELL, NIKOLA MY STRANGEST CASE THE KIDNAPPED PRESIDENT CONNIE BURT A TWO-FOLD INHERITANCE A BID FOR FREEDOM " Dropped him again -with a cry that echoed in my helmet." (Page 90.) A Crime, of…
- apparition in The Crime of the Under Seas#2225ouchy on the subject as an old man with the gout. The trouble I have to con tend with is that this place is supposed to be haunted. I know it's a silly sort of thing for a matter-of-fact fellow like myself to say ; but…
- haunted in The Crime of the Under Seas#2224e posts that supported the roof, regarded me steadily for some seconds. 158 THE PHANTOM STOCKMAN " First and foremost, old man," he said, "try to bear it in mind that I don't want to be laughed at. I've got so much at s…
- apparition in The Crime of the Under Seas#2223nted. I know it's a silly sort of thing for a matter-of-fact fellow like myself to say ; but still the fact remains, and a remarkably un pleasant fact it is." " The deuce it is," I replied. " And pray what is the place…
- ghosts in The Crime of the Under Seas#2222y meant, and told their women folk, who, as usual, spread the report abroad. Lancelot called on the Monday following their return, and Arthur welcomed him, if anything, a little too effusively. Guinevere crossed the roo…
- ghosts in The Crime of the Under Seas#2221ghbour, the man who, for the sake of my company, has done his level best to persuade me to give the place a further trial, has promised to come over and give us a hand, and if we three can't settle the mystery between u…
- ghost in The Crime of the Under Seas#2220p to match, white. Still looped over his ears was a long grey beard and moustache of false hair. Spicer dismounted and knelt beside him. After feeling his heart he plucked the beard away and almost shouted his astonishm…
- devil in The Crime of the Under Seas#2219meet him as you came out ? " " Meet whom ? " I asked. " Why, our friend, the Phantom Stockman ?" " The devil ! And has he turned up again ?" After looking cautiously round, Jim edged his horse up alongside mine and said…
- devil in The Crime of the Under Seas#2218the earth. Whenever he sees the leader do that, a cattle man knows that it behoves him to stand by and keep his eyes open for trouble. Coming up with Spicer, I asked him what he thought was the matter, but for some mome…
- ghost in The Crime of the Under Seas#2217fright I had received. "Jim, did you hear that scream ? " "Worse luck," answered poor Jim. " I wish I could say I hadn't. What the deuce does it mean?" " It means," I replied sternly, " that if there's a ghost in this p…
- ghost in The Crime of the Under Seas#2216ing sound that must have continued while I could have counted twenty. Thinking this had gone about far enough I jumped out of bed, opened the door, and ran into the passage, only to be seized by a pair of arms. Lifting…
- ghost in The Crime of the Under Seas#2215ouse. " This is Hamlet's father's ghost with a vengeance, don' t-cher- know. I shall be glad whenever he takes it into his head to pay me a visit at Yarka. I'm afraid in that case my respected parent would see me in Eng…
- ghosts in The Crime of the Under Seas#2214her trial, has promised to come over and give us a hand, and if we three can't settle the mystery between us, well, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, that's all." 11 We'll certainly have a good try," I an swe…
- phantom in The Crime of the Under Seas#2213on yourself ? " " I have seen him on three occasions," re plied Spicer solemnly. " The first time was the week after I arrived on the place, the second was three months ago, and the last was the very Saturday upon which…
- phantom in The Crime of the Under Seas#2212ysteries, save in mining matters, are few and far between. I am all impatience to hear what shape yours assumes." While I had been speaking Spicer had been leaning on the verandah rail looking down the hillside towards…
- phantom in The Crime of the Under Seas#2211s," said Spicer, as he walked to the rail of the verandah, and looked down upon the moonlit plain, " it is, as you say, by no means a bad sort of place. As I shall show you to morrow, the station buildings are above the…
- phantom in The Crime of the Under Seas#2210n the Bush. The property itself is a large one, and certainly the best in that district. The homestead is a neat Bush building con structed of wood, roofed with shingles, and boasting on every side a broad verandah. It…
- The Phantom Stockman in The Crime of the Under Seas#2209hearty welcome, but would be very thankful for my assistance in unravelling a mystery which up to the time of writing had baffled him completely. What the mystery was he did not say. Now, as all the Bush world knows, Wa…
- The Phantom Stockman in The Crime of the Under Seas#2208n hearing that I did not feel tired, her husband had invited me to bring my pipe and grog into the verandah, where we could chat about old times without disturbing anybody. I had only arrived that afternoon from Mel bou…
- The Phantom Stockman in The Crime of the Under Seas#2207ton Garden." The great black pearl which was the cause of all that has been told in this story is now amongst the most valued jewels of an Empress, How little, when it lies black as night upon her snow-white bosom, does…
- The Phantom Stockman in The Crime of the Under Seas#2206a cry that echoed in my helmet." (Page 90.) A Crime, of the Undtf-Stus] [Frontispiece A CRIME OF THE UNDER-SEAS By GUY BOOTHBY Author of "A Bid for Fortune" " Doctor Nikola" " The Beautiful White Devil" " Pharos, the Eg…
- medicine man in Medicine Man Notes#1456e Moobir, or cuts on the bodies, some of which are tribal marks, some marks of mourning, some merely of ornamentation. Both men and women are seen with these marks in the Narran district; some huge wales on the skin fro…
- medicine man in Medicine Man Notes#1455e back, some on the chest and the forepart of the arms. They are cut with a stone knife, licked along by the medicine man, filled in with charcoal, and the skin let grow over. Various reasons are given for these marks:…
- medicine man in Medicine Man Notes#1454While on the subject of personal decoration I forgot the Moobir, or cuts on the bodies, some of which are tribal marks, some marks of mourning, some merely of ornamentation. Both men and women are seen with these marks…
- wizard in Byamee and Wirreenun#1453ebillahs burrow into the sand and leave their young there as soon as the faintest feel of a spine appears. The baby piggiebillahs look like little indiarubber toys. The opossums all disappeared from our district. When w…
- wizard in Byamee and Wirreenun#1452The opossums all disappeared from our district. When we were first there they were very numerous and used to make raids at night to my rose-bushes—great havoc the result. It is said a very great wirreenun—wizard—willed…
- devil in Spirit Stories#1451totem, which was Beemunny's. As Yellen spoke in a hushed sad voice, suddenly, though no breath of wind was stirring, sprang up on the edge of the camp a boolee, rearing its head as if it were a living thing. Round it wh…
- Byamee in Spirit Stories#1450Hippi said a great deal more would have been spoken and sung at the grave if the dead person had been a man. His spirit would have in a short sort of prayer been commended to Byamee, who would have been intreated to let…
- Byamee in Spirit Stories#1449And Byamee was so pleased with her for always having food for the hungry that, when at length she died, he allowed her to revisit her old gahreemai, or camp, her spirit returning in the form of the little honey-eater bi…
- devil in Spirit Stories#1448As Yellen spoke in a hushed sad voice, suddenly, though no breath of wind was stirring, sprang up on the edge of the camp a boolee, rearing its head as if it were a living thing. Round it whirled, snatching the dead lea…
- devil in Spirits and Wirreenun#1447e post herself and carried it in. These posts are painted red, black, and white, with a snaky pattern, the Kurreah sign, on them. She also planted in my garden two other witch-poles, one painted red and having a cross-b…
- wizard in Spirits and Wirreenun#1446als like us.' We left it. That evening a messenger arrived from the sheep station to say my cook's mother had died just before sunset. The camp were firm believers in Bootha's witch-stick after that. It was just as well…
- wizard in Spirits and Wirreenun#1445They say that long ago the wirreenuns always used to have a sort of totem wizard-stick guarding the front of their camps.
- devil in Spirits and Wirreenun#1444'I get the spirits to help me,' she said, and started a little sing-song, then shouldered the post herself and carried it in. These posts are painted red, black, and white, with a snaky pattern, the Kurreah sign, on the…
- Wirreenun in Spirits and Wirreenun#1443Bootha got up then, came over to the patient, took her hand, rubbed it round the wrist several times, muttering an incantation; then saying she would see her again next day, off she went, taking, she told us, all the sp…
- Wirreenun in Spirits and Wirreenun#1442In this Minggah, Guadgee said, were swarms of bees invisible to all but wirreenuns, and they are ready always to resent any insult to the Minggah or its shadow. These spirit-bees had entered Adelaide and secreted some w…
- Wirreenun in Spirits and Wirreenun#1441Guadgee answered all she was asked. She said Adelaide was made ill because she had offended the spirits by bathing in the creek under the shade of a Minggah, or spirit-tree, a place tabooed to all but wirreenuns, or suc…
- Wirreenun in Spirits and Wirreenun#1440'Wahl you frightened, wahl me hurt you. I only womba—mad—all yowee—spirits—in me tell me gubbah—good-I lib 'long a youee; bimeby I come back big feller wirreenun; wahl you frightened? I not hurt you.'
- spirit in Introductory Belief Context#1439ey were on very good terms with me. They would exchange gifts with me: I might receive a carved weapon, and one of them some tobacco. The giving was not all on my side, by any means. My anthropological reading was scant…
- spirit in Introductory Belief Context#1438s the tribes, on Lake Eyre, and the southernmost Arunta of the centre. Thus, there is a limited and modified shape of the central and northern belief in reincarnation, and there is a great development of what are called…
- Byamee in Introductory Belief Context#1437eir south-east, but is clearly allied with it, many names of animals being the same in both tongues. A few names of animals are shared with the Wirádjuri speech, as Mullian, Eagle Hawk; Pelican, Goolayyahlee (Wirádjuri,…
- spirit in Introductory Belief Context#1436My anthropological reading was scanty, but I was well acquainted with and believed in Mr. Herbert Spencer's 'Ghost theory' of the origin of religion in the worship of ancestral spirits. What I learned from the natives s…
- spirit in Introductory Belief Context#1435There is a belief in spirit-haunted trees, as among the Arunta, and there is a form of the Arunta myth of the 'Dream Time,' the age of pristine evolution.
- Byamee in Introductory Belief Context#1434Howitt is also the term used by the Wirádjuri and Kamilaroi, 'Baiame' or 'Byamee.' The Euahlayi, however, possess myths, beliefs, and usages not recorded as extant among the Kamilaroi, but rather forming a link with the…
- ghost in Glossary and Belief Terms#1429eaten by the enemy. Their young widows spent days searching for them, after the tribe had given up hope of finding them. At last the widows—who had refused to marry again, declaring their husbands yet lived, and that o…
- ghost in Glossary and Belief Terms#1428idows—who had refused to marry again, declaring their husbands yet lived, and that one day they would find them—disappeared. Time passed; they did not return, so were supposed to be dead too. Then arose the rumour that…
- ghost in Glossary and Belief Terms#1427Time passed; they did not return, so were supposed to be dead too. Then arose the rumour that their ghosts had been seen, and to this day it is said the plain of Weawarra is haunted by them.
- Yhi in Legends and Spirit Figures#1426vers that at first the tribes were meant to live for ever. The women were told never to go near a certain hollow tree. The bees made a nest in this tree; the women coveted the honey, but the men forbade them to go near…
- Wurrunnah in Legends and Spirit Figures#1425, and when you see that he has turned round as the position of the Milky Way is altered, you may expect rain; he never moves except to make it. A waving dark shadow that you will see along the same course is Kurreah, th…
- Yhi in Legends and Spirit Figures#1424ts wings. Of eclipses there are various accounts. Some say it is Yhi, the sun, the wanton woman, who has overtaken at last her enemy the moon, who scorned her love, and whom now she tries to kill, but the spirits interv…
- Wurrunnah in Legends and Spirit Figures#1423Across the creek is another very old tree, having one hollow part in which is said to be secreted a shell which old Wurrunnah, the traveller of the tribes, and the first to see the sea, brought back. No one would dare t…
- Yhi in Legends and Spirit Figures#1422Another account says that Yhi, the sun, after many lovers, tried to ensnare Bahloo, the moon; but he would have none of her, and so she chases him across the sky, telling the spirits who stand round the sky holding it u…
- Yhi in Legends and Spirit Figures#1421Of eclipses there are various accounts. Some say it is Yhi, the sun, the wanton woman, who has overtaken at last her enemy the moon, who scorned her love, and whom now she tries to kill, but the spirits intervene, dread…
- Mullyan in Legends and Spirit Figures#1377The Southern Crown is Mullyan, the eagle-hawk. The Southern Cross was the first Minggah, or spirit tree a huge Yaraan, which was the medium for the translation of the first man who died on earth to the sky. The white co…
- Wurrunnah in Legends and Spirit Figures#1376Men had desired all the sisters when once they travelled on earth, but they kept themselves unspotted from the world, with the exception of the two Wurrunnah captured by stratagem.
- Wurrunnah in Legends and Spirit Figures#1375The Pleiades are seven sisters, as usual, the dimmed ones having been dulled because on earth Wurrunnah seized them and tried to melt the crystal off them at a fire; for, beautiful as they were with their long hair, the…
- Mullyan in The Making of Medicine Men#1374o various totems, and the rains are claimed by the totem whose wind it was that blew it up. If a storm comes up without wind it belongs to Bohrah, the kangaroo. The big mountainous clouds when they come from the south-w…
- Mullyan in The Making of Medicine Men#1373you would insult him: it is not dust, it is the pollen off the pines, and so a multiplex totem to him! The winds belong to various totems, and the rains are claimed by the totem whose wind it was that blew it up. If a…
- Mullyan in The Making of Medicine Men#1372The big mountainous clouds when they come from the south-west are said to be Mullyan, the eagle-hawk, who makes the south-west wind claimed by Maira, paddy melon totem, one of whose multiplex totems Mullyan is.
- devil in More About the Medicine Men#1371In his Minggah a wirreenun will probably keep some Wundah, or white devil spirits, with which to work evil. There, too, he often keeps his yunbeai, or animal spirit—that is, his individual totem, not hereditary one. All…
- devil in More About the Medicine Men#1370He has Gubberahs, or clever stones, in which are the active spirits of evil-working devils, as well as others to work good. Should a Doowee once get into this wirreenun's bag, which has the power of self-movement, there…
- wizard in The Medicine Men#1369e, or one of its multiplex totems, and show no sign of sorrow or anger; but should any one speak evil of the Beewee, or of any of its multiplex totems, there will be a quarrel. There will likewise be a quarrel if any on…
- devil in The Medicine Men#1368The children of Kubbootha will be Thus, you see, they take, if girls, their grandmother's and her sisters' 'class' names in common; if boys, the 'class' name of their grandmother's brothers. Both men and women are often…
- wizard in The Medicine Men#1367him, though it is possible that there may have been a time in tribal history, now forgotten, when totems were wunnarl, and these ceremonies may be all that is left to point to that time. When a boy, after his first Boo…
- wizard in The Medicine Men#1366When a boy, after his first Boorah, killed his first emu, whether it was his Dhé, or totem, or not, his father made him lie on the bird before it was cooked. Afterwards a wirreenun (wizard) and the father rubbed the fa…
- wizard in The Medicine Men#1365When the wunnarl was taken off a particular kind of meat, a wizard poured some of the melted fat and inside blood of that animal or bird, as the case might be, over the boy, and rubbed it into him. The boy, shaking and…
- spirit in The Medicine Men#1364The yunbeai is a sort of alter ego; a man's spirit is in his yunbeai, and his yunbeai's spirit in him.
- Wirreenun in The Medicine Men#1363There are members of the tribes, principally wizards, or men intended to be such, who are given an individual totem called Yunbeai. This they must never eat or they will die. Any injury to his yunbeai hurts the man him…
- devil in The Medicine Men#1362A propos of names, a child is never called at night by the same name as in the daytime, lest the 'devils' hear it and entice him away.
- spirit in Byamee and Social Organisation#1361Ridley's book, have been attached to his name by educated Kamilaroi. But he was a worshipful being, revealed in the mysteries, long before missionaries came, as all my informants aver. There has, indeed, been much dispu…
- Wirreenun in Byamee and Social Organisation#1360; as the pebbles fell in, the water splashed up into the clouds above, whence it descended as the desired rain. It is told to me, that at some initiatory rites the oldest medicine man, or Wirreenun, present addresses a…
- Wirreenun in Byamee and Social Organisation#1359up a handful of crystal pebbles and thrown them from the sky down into the water in a stone basin on the top of the sacred mountain; as the pebbles fell in, the water splashed up into the clouds above, whence it descend…