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- fairy in Australian fairy tales#1471*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 68225 *** AUSTRALIAN FAIRY TALES. BY ATHA WESTBURY. ILLUSTRATED BY A. J. JOHNSON. LONDON: WARD, LOCK, & CO., LIMITED, WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C. NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE…
- water-sprite in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1392with Fig. 204, the ideagram for sickness, a corpse, &c.: sickness and death from a non-physical (7.e., aboriginally unapparent) cause being always considered a punishment for crime committed (sect. 279). _ _ Fig. 212. G…
- devil in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1391Deceased, 67, 190, 289. See Burial, &c. Decimal Notation, 4. Decoration and Bodily Ornament, Ch. VIT. Decoration and Dress at Corrobborees, 193. i ation, 101, 274, 332. ut in Fighting, Sign of, 238. Definitiveness of Ac…
- devil in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1390nt attitudes assumed by the trunk and limbs. <7 The i? lace of origin and peregrinations of this particular corrobboree, as far as i) they could be traced, | have been already referred to in sect. 191. The meaning of th…
- spirit in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1389fterwards described (sect. 263), the pebble, flint, bone, &e., that Aanmare put there, with the result that the individual recovers and becomes a doctor himself. ‘The bone so removed, the kanmare-bone, is a rather long…
- water-sprite in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1388is ideagram, the Woonamurra and Goa have a variation: the fore and middle fingers widely separated and extended do the pointing. Compare this with Fig. 204, the ideagram for sickness, a corpse, &c.: sickness and death f…
- ghost in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1387g girl (from four or five years of age up to first signs of puberty). mi-ri mi-ri = netted fore-head band. mi-ri-wi2-ni = mountain, rock, small stone, m6-d-ri == poisonous white powder for producing sickness or death. (…
- ghost in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1386ari- yetcha. 9. Malooaka-nari-yetcha punna-ka nunie. 10. Koopa-koopa tie-nari- yetcha pari-ena. Trenslation. The dog is more tired than the slut. 2. Lam younger thanyou. 8. [Who is the fatter ?] the man or the woman? 4.…
- ghost in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1385180, Run!; 181-182, Stay! &c. ; 183, To Cover with Earth, &c.; 184-187, Corrobboree ; 188-189, Viro; &c. Prate X. Sien-Laneuace (continued)— Fig. 190-192, Fire, &e. ; 193, Sleep; 194-195, Swimming ; 196-197, To Grasp, &…
- medicine man in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1384eing who produces Cranki- ness, Mental Disease, &c., 278. Direct Question : Interrogation, 40. Direction, Neighbourhood, &¢., from: Motion, 99 Direction, Place, Distance : Ideas of, 39, Direction, S:L., 95-6. Dirges ant…
- medicine man in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1383rty of producing sickness and death, which, in the absence of sufficiently demonstrable causes, cannot otherwise be accounted for, is one of the most dreaded, as it is universal, of the aboriginal superstitions of North…
- ghost in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1382his alleged would-be destroyer, and not that of someone else who may have been “pointed”? at in mistake. He therefore, in company with the doctor who procured it, will in a few days’ time, to avert suspicion, leave the…
- medicine-man in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1381s the supernatural it Being with immense eyes and very big ears, Ten-gul-a-goo-lun, who teaches the ductor how to use the munguni: when people are in camp at night he can he be heard scratching on the timber and breakin…
- medicine-man in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1380| mun-da- —_— | Boulia District. eae ean Cloncurry District. | t tH a | The death-bone as a Feccaatiesssthi f wa-to-ko . ly, Lk whole | \kum-bo (+) | Lnul-ta Nd Ui | ho The pointer tas sre | te-rt I rao (*) ka-te-bri-na…
- medicine-man in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1379omen to draw attention to its source of origin. Woo., Goa. Fig. 124. Child—one’s own flesh and blood: mother-in-law.—The closed hand and thumb tapping upon the forehead, the ides 2a of “ think-all-the-same” in the ease…
- medicine-man in Ethnological studies among the north-west-central Queensland aborigines#1378ed chest-ornament. mitin-dé-/7-% = round, curved. min-di = much, many (ef. mundia, mungkora) min-di-& = heavy. miing-i-roo == seed of a sp. of edible nut-grass. miing-kér-& = largest kind of dilly-bag, and so, very grea…
- ghost in While the Billy Boils#3963yer pecker up, young 'un!” IN A WET SEASON It was raining--“general rain.” The train left Bourke, and then there began the long, long agony of scrub and wire fence, with here and there a natural clearing, which seemed e…
- spirits in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2773the door, And a boundary-rider jogging out across the neighb'ring run Was attracted by a something that was blazing in the sun; And he found that it was Peter, lying peacefully at rest, With a bottle close beside him an…
- phantom in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2769in the days ere you were born? Ah! we read about the drovers and the shearers and the like Till we wonder why such happy and romantic fellows strike. Don't you fancy that the poets ought to give the bush a rest Ere they…
- phantom in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2768a swagman's ghost out late; And the horseman blurs in the distance, While still the stars remain, A low, faint dust-cloud haunting His track on the Great Grey Plain. And all day long from before them The mirage smokes a…
- haunted in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2767dn't time to think -- All is nothing! Nothing matters! Fill your glasses -- dead man's drink. . . . . . Yet, to show his heart was not of human decency bereft, Peter paid the undertaker. He got drunk on what was left; T…
- spirit in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2766as good as they -- You're a drunkard, and a liar, and a cynic, and a sneak, Your grammar's simply awful and your intellect is weak. The Ghost Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, a…
- spirit in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2765y girl a Venus your poetic eye discerns, You are gracefully referred to as the 'young Australian Burns'. But if you should find that bushmen -- spite of all the poets say -- Are just common brother-sinners, and you're q…
- devil in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2764It well may be that I saw too plain, and it may be I was blind; But I'll keep my face to the dawning light, though the devil may stand behind! Though the devil may stand behind my back, I'll not see his shadow fall, But…
- ghosts in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2763w that there is something -- something crooked with my heart. Tom, my first child died. I loved her even better than the pen -- Tom -- and while the STAR was dying, why, I felt like I did THEN. . . . . . Listen! Like th…
- ghosts in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2762nging out. They will take what they can get, and they will give what they can give, God alone knows how they manage -- God alone knows how they live! They are nearly always hard-up, but are cheerful all the while -- Men…
- ghost in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2761From the camp, while the rich man's dreaming, Come the 'traveller' and his mate, In the ghastly dawnlight seeming Like a swagman's ghost out late; And the horseman blurs in the distance, While still the stars remain, A…
- ghost in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2760tain, No spring on its dry, hot breast, No shade from the blazing noontide Where a weary man might rest. Whole years go by when the glowing Sky never clouds for rain -- Only the shrubs of the desert Grow on the Great Gr…
- ghost in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2759uessed he'd have to go and get his bottle filled again, And he gave a lurch and vanished in the darkness and the rain. . . . . . And of afternoons in cities, when the rain is on the land, Visions come to me of Sweeney w…
- ghost in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2758stralian night have gone from the bush and town; Marshall's Mate You almost heard the surface bake, and saw the gum-leaves turn -- [July -- 1895] The Poets of the Tomb The world has had enough of bards who wish that the…
- ghosts in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#2757[Dec. -- 1890] Dan, the Wreck Tall, and stout, and solid-looking, A Prouder Man Than You If you fancy that your people came of better stock than mine, [June -- 1892] The Song and the Sigh The creek went down with a brok…
- haunted in While the Billy Boils#2545vernment allows one man to every five trucks in a cattle-train. We shall pay our fare next time, even if we have not a shilling left over and above. We had haunted local influence at Comanavadrink for two long, anxious,…
- devil in While the Billy Boils#2544an old, old man, with a younger one at his side; the younger one has Isley's face. Horses' feet again! Ah, God! Nemesis once more in troopers' uniform! The fossicker falls on his knees in the mud and clay at the bottom…
- devil in While the Billy Boils#2543South Australia, an' I wrote home pretty reg'lar and sent what money I could. Last I got down on to the south-western coast of South Australia--an' there I got mixed up with another woman--you know what that means, boys…
- devil in While the Billy Boils#2542any man in this world.” “To be sure,” said a full voice from the rear. “If ye'd known that, ye'd have prolonged the conversation.” We plodded on across the railway line and along the hot, dusty road which ran to the cem…
- spirits in While the Billy Boils#2541ther might be dead now--poor old soul!--any way, you'll never see her again. You wish you'd never run away from home. You wish you'd been a better son to your poor old mother; you wish you'd written to her and answered…
- spirit in While the Billy Boils#2540heat, and flies, and mosquitoes, just as a bullock does, and lose ambition and hope, and get contented with this animal life, like a dog, and till your swag seems part of yourself, and you'd be lost and uneasy and light…
- spirit in While the Billy Boils#2539orners of his eyes, whilst he painfully copied down the head line, spelling it in a different way each time. In this laborious task he appeared to be greatly assisted by a tongue that lolled out of the corner of his mou…
- spirit in While the Billy Boils#2538The town is supposed to be situated on the banks of a river called the Paroo, but we saw no water there, except what passed for it in a tank. The goats and sheep and dogs and the rest of the population drink there. It i…
- spirit in While the Billy Boils#2537good start across the flat before the go-as-you-can commenced; so I talked for a while, and while we were talking I thought I might as well go the whole hog--I might as well die for a pound as a penny, if I had to die;…
- apparition in While the Billy Boils#2536ketch The Bush Undertaker Our Pipes Coming Across The Story of Malachi Two Dogs and a Fence Jones's Alley Bogg of Geebung She Wouldn't Speak The Geological Spieler Macquarie's Mate Baldy Thompson For Auld Lang Syne FIRS…
- haunted in While the Billy Boils#2535at Nyngan--which place we refrain from sketching--for a few hours, because the five trucks of cattle of which we were in charge were shunted there, to be taken on by a very subsequent goods train. The Government allows…
- haunted in While the Billy Boils#2534was a party of those gipsy-like Assyrians--two families apparently--the women and children lying very sick about the lower bunks; and a big, good-humoured-looking young Maori propped between the end of the table and the…
- haunted in While the Billy Boils#2533old and feeble, and men who had lost their faith in fortune. They had dropped unnoticed out of the ranks; and remained to scratch out a living among the abandoned claims. Golden Gully had its little community of fossick…
- ghost in While the Billy Boils#2532than chalk is like cheese. You'll often drop across some colour-blind old codger that can't tell the difference between two people that ain't got a bit of likeness between 'em. “Then there was young Joe Swallow. He was…
- ghost in While the Billy Boils#2531crocodiles. You may rip a sheep open whilst watching for the boss's boots or yarning to a pen-mate, and then when you have stuffed the works back into the animal, and put a stitch in the slit, and poked it somewhere wit…
- ghost in While the Billy Boils#2530ning in a chair, with all the girls boo-hoo-ing round her for company. The old man was sitting in the back kitchen crying to himself.” He put his hat down on the ground, dinted in the crown, and poured some water into t…
- ghost in While the Billy Boils#2529arings of his pot with the other. The Irishman has lost his match-box, and feels for it all over the table without success. He stoops down with his hands on his knees, gets the table-top on a level with the flicker of f…
- old woman in Australian Legendary Tales#2496o was drowned. His weapons floated about and drifted apart, and his rugs rotted in the water. 19. OUYAN THE CURLEW Bleargah the hawk, mother of Ouyan the curlew, said one day to her son: "Go, Ouyan, out, take your spear…
- old woman in Australian Legendary Tales#2495water and water-fowl, from henceforth; when the Narran runs it will run into this hole, and by the spreading of its waters will a big lake be made." And what Byamee said has come to pass, as the Narran Lake shows, with…
- old man in Australian Legendary Tales#2494ss nyunnoos, more than twenty. He made fires before each, to make it look as if some one lived in the nyunnoos. First he would go into one nyunnoo, or humpy, and cry like a baby, then to another and laugh like a child,…
- spirit in Australian Legendary Tales#2493spirits who were coming to assist at the initiation of the boys into young manhood. The noise really sounded, if you had not the dread of spirits in your mind, just as if some one had a circular piece of wood at the end…
- old man in Australian Legendary Tales#2492h they sounded as if coming from the sky. As the cries sounded again the mothers looked up whence they came, and there they saw the mubboo trees with their sons beside them. Then well they knew that they would see no mo…
- spirit in Australian Legendary Tales#2491paddymelon skins hanging from it. Weedall, bower or mocking-bird. Weeownbeen, a small bird. Something like a redbreast, only with longer tail and not so red a breast. Widya nurrah, a wooden battleaxe shaped weapon. Will…
- spirit in Australian Legendary Tales#2490and were whirling it round and round. As the noise went on, the women said, in an awestricken tone, "Gurraymy," that is "borah devil," and clutched their children tighter to them. The boys said "Gayandy," and their eyes…
- devil in Australian Legendary Tales#2489ks was fixed on this fight, there came a strange, whizzing, whirring noise from the scrub round. The women and children shrank together, for the sudden, uncanny noise frightened them. And they knew that it was made by t…
- devil in Australian Legendary Tales#2488to where he was followed by another Wirreenun, and presently the two old fellows began fighting. Suddenly, when the attention of the blacks was fixed on this fight, there came a strange, whizzing, whirring noise from th…
- spirit in Australian Legendary Tales#2487ch we came, and to which we shall probably return. "Equality," "Liberty", "Community of Goods," all mean savagery, and even savages, if equal, are not really free. Custom is the tyrant. The designs are from the sketch-b…
- devil in Australian Legendary Tales#2486r and an edible fruit somewhat resembling passion fruit. Guinary, light eagle hawk. Guineboo, robin redbreast. Gurraymy, borah devil. Gwai, red. Gwaibillah, star. Mars. Kurreah, an alligator. Mahthi, dog. Maimah, stones…
- Moodai in Australian Legendary Tales#2485ed from the fire to dance back he found a wall of men confronting him. These quickly seized him and hurled him into the madly-leaping fire before him, where he perished in the flames. And so were the Bilbers avenged. 16…
- Moodai in Australian Legendary Tales#2484ddy melon. May or Mayr, wind. Mayrah, spring wind. Meainei, girls. Midjee, a species of acacia. Millair, species of kangaroo rat. Moodai, opossum. Moogaray, hailstones. Mooninguggahgul, mosquito-calling bird. Moonoon, e…
- Mullyangah in Australian Legendary Tales#2483nd make good their own escape. But they had left it too late. As they turned to descend the tree, the roof of the humpy fell on them. And all that remained when the fire ceased, were the charred bones of the dwellers in…
- Mullyangah in Australian Legendary Tales#2482dged Narahdarn; then the voice of the mother of the Bilbers shrieked in the chanting, high above that of the other women. As Narahdarn turned from the fire to dance back he found a wall of men confronting him. These qui…
- Wurrunnah in Australian Legendary Tales#2481runnah to see a stranger having no eyes, yet turning his face towards him as if seeing him all the time. But he determined not to show his fear, but go straight on towards him, which he did. When he came up to him, the…
- Wurrunnah in Australian Legendary Tales#2480new people in a new country. After he had gone some distance, he saw, a long way off, an old man chopping out bees' nests. The old man turned his face towards Wurrunnah, and watched him coming, but when Wurrunnah came c…
- Wurrunnah in Australian Legendary Tales#2479rage and he said, "I will go to a far country and live with strangers; my own people would starve me." And while he was yet hot and angry, he went. Gathering up his weapons, he strode forth to find a new people in a new…
- Wurrunnah in Australian Legendary Tales#2478hu, Doongarah." So long and so fierce was the storm that the young men must have perished had they not been changed into birds. First they were changed into birds and afterwards into stars in the sky, where they now are…
- Yhi in Australian Legendary Tales#2477leaxe shaped weapon. Willgoo willgoo, pointed stick with feathers on top. Wirree, small piece of bark, canoe-shaped. Wirreenun, priest or doctor. Womba, mad. Wondah, spirit or ghost. Wurranunnah, wild bees. Wurrawilbero…
- Yhi in Australian Legendary Tales#2476they shall meet them again later on, when they are grown big. Then as Mayrah softly blows, the flowers one by one open, and the bees come out again to gather honey. Every bird wears his gayest plumage and sings his swee…
- Yhi in Australian Legendary Tales#2475ems, you only are here, what did you with Beeargah my cousin, and where are my friends? Many are their trails that I see coming into this camp, but none going out. And if you alone live here you alone can answer me." "W…
- Mullyangah in Australian Legendary Tales#2474oorillah, pebbly ridges. Mubboo, beefwood-tree. Mullyan, eagle hawk. Mullyangah, the morning star. Murgah muggui, big grey spider. Murrawondah, climbing rat. Narahdarn, bat. Noongahburrah, tribe of blacks on the Narran.…
- devil in Australian Legendary Tales#2473made from grass seed. Er moonan, long sharp teeth. Euloo marah, large tree grubs. Edible. Euloo wirree, rainbow. Galah or Gilah, a French grey and rose-coloured cockatoo. Gayandy, borah devil. Gidgereegah, a species of…
- Wayambeh in Australian Legendary Tales#2472hey saw him bring home a woman of the Oolah tribe, asked him if her tribe had given her to him. He said, "No, I have stolen her." "Well," they said, "her tribe will soon be after her; you must protect yourself; we shall…
- Wayambeh in Australian Legendary Tales#2471se and he would not hurt her, but that he meant to take her off to his camp to be his wife. He would take her three children too and look after them. Resistance was useless, for Oolah had only her yam stick, while Wayam…
- Wayambeh in Australian Legendary Tales#2470thought she heard some one moving behind the big Mirrieh bushes. She listened. All of a sudden out jumped Wayambeh from behind a bush and seized Oolah, telling her not to make a noise and he would not hurt her, but that…
- Wayambeh in Australian Legendary Tales#2469to be blown away again by Mayrah the loved of all, and the bringer of plenty. 30. WAYARNBEH THE TURTLE Oolah, the lizard, was out getting yams on a Mirrieh flat. She had three of her children with her. Suddenly she thou…
- Yhi in Australian Legendary Tales#2468blows until the land is one of plenty; then Yhi the sun chases her back whence she came, and the flowers droop and the birds sing only in the early morning. For Yhi rules in the land until the storms are over and have c…
- spirits in Australian Legendary Tales#2467he spear in it for a short distance, but the black fellow was quickly after it, and soon caught and killed it outright. Then carrying the dead birds, back they went to where Deegeenboyah was cooking the other emu. They…
- old woman in Australian Legendary Tales#2466led quite proudly to think what a fine kangaroo he had made. But his mother and sisters did not smile. They seized him and gave him a good beating for deceiving them. They told him he should never go out alone again, fo…
- Moodai in Australian Legendary Tales#2465perhaps know them as the Pleiades, but the black fellows call them the Meamei. 11. THE COOKOOBURRAHS AND THE GOOLAHGOOL Googarh, the iguana, was married to Moodai, the opossum and Cookooburrah, the laughing jackass. Coo…
- Moodai in Australian Legendary Tales#2464ices of their sisters. When they reached the tops of the pines the five sisters in the sky stretched forth their hands, and drew them in to live with them there in the sky for ever. And there, if you look, you may see t…
- Oolah in Australian Legendary Tales#2463s, has laid only two eggs in a season. 2. THE GALAH, AND OOLAH THE LIZARD Oolah the lizard was tired of lying in the sun, doing nothing. So he said, "I will go and play." He took his boomerangs out, and began to practis…
- Oolah in Australian Legendary Tales#2462gs, and now for evermore, as long as a Dinewan has no wings, so long shall a Goomblegubbon lay only two eggs and have only two young ones. We are quits now. You have your wings and I my children." And ever since that ti…
- Mullyangah in Australian Legendary Tales#2461E GWINERBOOS THE REDBREASTS 10 MEAMEI THE SEVEN SISTERS 11 THE COOKOOBURRAHS AND THE GOOLAHGOOL 12 THE MAYAMAH 13 THE BUNBUNDOOLOOEYS 14 OONGNAIRWAH AND GUINAREY 15 NARAHDARN THE BAT 16 MULLYANGAH THE MORNING STAR 17 GO…
- Oolah in Australian Legendary Tales#2460THE GALAH, AND OOLAH THE LIZARD 3 BAHLOO THE MOON, AND THE DAENS 4 THE ORIGIN OF THE NARRAN LAKE 5 GOOLOO THE MAGPIE, AND THE WAHROOGAH 6 THE WEEOOMBEENS AND THE PIGGIEBILLAH 7 BOOTOOLGAH THE CRANE AND GOONUR THE KANGAR…
- Oolah in Australian Legendary Tales#2459HTML version by Al Haines. AUSTRALIAN LEGENDARY TALES FOLK-LORE OF THE NOONGAHBURRAHS AS TOLD TO THE PICCANINNIES COLLECTED BY MRS. K. LANGLOH PARKER WITH INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. DEDICATED TO PETER HIPPI KING…
- Birrahgnooloo in Australian Legendary Tales#2458ry as such; in fact, to all intents and purposes, the same." GLOSSARY Bahloo, moon. Beeargah, hawk. Beeleer, black cockatoo. Beereeun, prickly lizard. Bibbee, woodpecker, bird. Bibbil, shiny-leaved box-tree. Bilber, a l…
- Birrahgnooloo in Australian Legendary Tales#2457, or the bee would not stay here and refuse to be moved on towards its nest. I must go to Coorigel Spring and see if my wives are safe. Something terrible has surely happened." And Byamee turned in haste towards the spr…
- old man in Australian Legendary Tales#2456And gone is the life of a man who meets in a scrub of Noondoo an earmoonan, for surely will it slay him. Not even did Byamee ever dare to go near the breed of his old dog. And Byamee, the mighty Wirreenun, lives for eve…
- old man in Australian Legendary Tales#2455he springs of Noondoo, the dog sneaked away into a thick scrub, and there were born her litter of pups. But such pups as surely man never looked at before. The bodies of dogs, and the heads of pigs, and the fierceness a…
- spirits in Australian Legendary Tales#2454us go back. The Wondah are about," And swiftly they sped towards their camp, hearing ever in the air the "Oom, oom, oom" of the spirits. They told Byamee that all the tribes had lost their dayoorls, and that the spirits…
- spirits in Australian Legendary Tales#2453e cry sounded high in the air through the tops of trees, then low on the ground through the grasses, until it seemed as if the spirits were everywhere. The women clutched tighter their fire sticks, and said: "Let us go…
- old woman in Australian Legendary Tales#2452m look at the water now at Boogira, and he said: "Soon will the black swans find their way here, the pelicans and the ducks; where there was dry land and stones in the past, in the future there will be water and water-f…
- Birrahgnooloo in Australian Legendary Tales#2451e had followed the bee with the white feather on it for some distance; then the bee flew on to some budtha flowers, and would move no further. Byamee said, "Something has happened, or the bee would not stay here and ref…
- Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales#2450ed and swallowed by two kurreahs. Having swallowed the girls, the kurreahs dived into an opening in the side of the spring, which was the entrance to an underground watercourse leading to the Narran River. Through this…
- Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales#2449nd yam sticks, went out as he told them. Having gone far, and dug out many yams and frogs, they were tired when they reached Coorigel, and, seeing the cool, fresh water, they longed to bathe. But first they built a boug…
- Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales#2448, and now they hated them, and they said, "If we could get them away from Bahloo we would kill them." And thenceforth, whenever they saw a snake alone they killed it. But Babloo only sent more, for he said, "As long as…
- Byamee in Australian Legendary Tales#244717 GOOMBLEGUBBON, BEEARGAII, AND OUYAN 18 MOOREGOO THE MOPOKE, AND BAHLOO THE MOON 19 OUYAN THE CURLEW 20 DINEWAN THE EMU, AND WAHN THE CROWS 21 GOOLAHWILLEEL THE TOPKNOT PIGEONS 22 GOONUR, THE WOMAN-DOCTOR 23 DEEREEREE…
- spirit in Australian Tales#2280before the Almighty Tribunal), which meant the loss of his position in the Public Library. All these mental troubles came upon the broken-down body in a cluster, and the burden was too heavy to bear. Struggling against…
- spirits in Australian Tales#2279, of which the following few lines may here be given:-- The bard, the scholar, and the man who lived That frank, that open-hearted life which keeps The splendid fire of English chivalry From dying out; the one who never…