Goolahwilleel The Topknot Pigeons : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], GOOLAHWILLEEL THE TOPKNOT PIGEONS YOUNG GOOLAHWILLEEEL used to go out hunting every day. His mother and sisters always expected that he would bring home kangaroo and emu for them. But each day he came home without any meat at all. They...
Wirreenun The Rainmaker : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], WIRREENUN THE RAINMAKER THE country was stricken with a drought. The rivers were all dry except the deepest holes in them. The grass was dead, and even the trees were dying. The bark dardurr of the blacks were all fallen to the ground...
Ouyan The Curlew : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], OUYAN THE CURLEW BLEARGAH the hawk, mother of Ouyan the curlew, said one day to her son: "Go, Ouyan, out, take your spears and kill an emu. The women and I are hungry. You are a man, go out and kill, that we may eat. You must not stay...
The Borah Of Byamee : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], THE BORAH OF BYAMEE WORD had been passed from tribe to tribe, telling, how that the season was good, there must be a great gathering of the tribes. And the place fixed for the gathering was Googoorewon. The old men whispered that it...
Deegeenboyah The Soldier Bird : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], DEEGEENBOYAH THE SOLDIER-BIRD DEEGEENBOYAH was an old man, and getting past hunting much for himself; and he found it hard to keep his two wives and his two daughters supplied with food. He camped with his family away from the other...
Wayarnbeh The Turtle : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], WAYARNBEH THE TURTLE OOLAH, the lizard, was out getting yams on a Mirrieh flat. She had three of her children with her. Suddenly she thought she heard some one moving behind the big Mirrieh bushes. She listened. All of a sudden out...
Glossary : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], GLOSSARY Bahloo, moon. Beeargah, hawk. Beeleer, black cockatoo. Beereeun, prickly lizard. Bibbee, woodpecker, bird. Bibbil, shiny-leaved box-tree. Bilber, a large kind of rat. Billai or Billay, crimson-wing parrot. Bindeah, a prickle...
Bunnyyarl The Flies And Wurrunnunnah The Bees : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], BUNNYYARL THE FLIES AND WURRUNNUNNAH THE BEES THE Bunnyyarl and Wurrunnunnah were relations, and lived in one camp. The Wurrunnunnah were very hardworking, always trying to gather food in a time of plenty, to lay in a store for a time...
Appendix : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], APPENDIX EDITOR and Publisher have gratefully accepted a suggestion made by Dr. E. B. Tylor, that the philologist would be thankful for a specimen of these tales in their native form. DINEWAN BOOLLARHNAH GOOMBLEGUBBON Dinewan boorool...
The Galah, And Oolah The Lizard : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], 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 practise throwing them. While he was doing so a Galah came up...
Title Page : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], 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. ILLUSTRATIONS BY A NATIVE ARTIST, AND A SPECIMEN OF THE NATIVE TEXT SECOND...
Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], GOOLOO THE MAGPIE, AND THE WAHROOGAH Gooloo was a very old woman, and a very wicked old woman too, as this story will tell. During all the past season, when the grass was thick with seed, she had gathered much doonburr, which she...
Mullyangah The Morning Star : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], MULLYANGAH THE MORNING STAR MULLYAN, the eagle hawk, built himself a home high in a yaraan tree. There he lived apart from his tribe, with Moodai the opossum, his wife, and Moodai the opossum, his mother-in-law. With them too w...
Deereeree The Wagtail, And The Rainbow : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], DEEREEREE THE WAGTAIL, AND THE RAINBOW DEEREEREE was a widow and lived in a camp alone with her four little girls. One day Bibbee came and made a camp not far from hers. Deereeree was frightened of him, too frightened to go to sleep...
Oongnairwah And Guinarey : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], OONGNAIRWAH AND GUINAREY OONGNAIRWAH, the diver, and Guinarey, the eagle hawk, told all the pelicans, black swans, cranes, and many others, that they would take their net to the creek and catch fish, if some of them would go and be...
Bahloo The Moon And The Daens : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], BAHLOO THE MOON AND THE DAENS BAHLOO the moon looked down at the earth one night, when his light was shining quite brightly, to see if any one was moving. When the earth people were all asleep was the time he chose for playing with his...
Meamei The Seven Sisters : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], MEAMEI THE SEVEN SISTERS WURRUNNAH had had a long day's hunting, and he came back to the camp tired and hungry. He asked his old mother for durrie, but she said there was none left. Then he asked some of the other blacks to give him...
Narahdarn The Bat : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], NARAHDARN THE BAT NARAHDARN, the bat, wanted honey. He watched until he saw a Wurranunnah, or bee, alight. He caught it, stuck a white feather between its hind legs, let it go and followed it. He knew he could see the white feather...
The Origin Of The Narran Lake : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], THE ORIGIN OF THE NARRAN LAKE OLD BYAMEE said to his two young wives, Birrahgnooloo and Cunnunbeillee, "I have stuck a white feather between the hind legs of a bee, and am going to let it go and then follow it to its nest, that I may...
Mooregoo The Mopoke, And Bahloo The Moon : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], MOOREGOO THE MOPOKE, AND BAHLOO THE MOON MOOREGOO the Mopoke had been camped away by himself for a long time. While alone he had made a great number of boomerangs, nullah-nullahs, spears, neilahmans, and opossum rugs. Well had he carved...
Preface : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], PREFACE A NEIGHBOR of mine exclaimed, when I mentioned that I proposed making a small collection of the folk-lore legends of the tribe of blacks I knew so well living on this station, "But have the blacks any legends?"--thus showing...
Goomblegubbon, Beeargah, And Ouyan : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], GOOMBLEGUBBON, BEEARGAH, AND OUYAN GOOMBLEGUBBON the bustard, his two wives, Beeargah the hawk, and Ouyan the curlew, with the two children of Beeargah, had their camps right away in the bush; their only water supply was a small dungle...
Weedah The Mocking Bird : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], WEEDAH THE MOCKING BIRD WEEDAH was playing a great trick on the black fellows who lived near him. He had built himself a number of grass nyunnoos, more than twenty. He made fires before each, to make it look as if some one lived...
Introduction : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], INTRODUCTION AUSTRALIA makes an appeal to the fancy which is all its own. When Cortes entered Mexico, in the most romantic moment of history, it was as if men had found their way to a new planet, so strange, so long hidden from Europe...
Dinewan The Emu, And Goomblegubbon The Bustard : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], DINEWAN THE EMU, AND GOOMBLEGUBBON THE BUSTARD DINEWAN the emu, being the largest bird, was acknowledged as king bythe other birds. The Goomblegubbons, the bustards, were jealous of the Dinewans. Particularly was Goomblegubb...
The Cookooburrahs And The Goolahgool : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], THE COOKOOBURRAHS AND THE GOOLAHGOOL GOOGARH, the iguana, was married to Moodai, the opossum and Cookooburrah, the laughing jackass. Cookooburrah was the mother of three sons, one grown up and living away from her, the other two only...
Dinewan The Emu, And Wahn The Crows : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], DINEWAN THE EMU, AND WAHN THE CROWS DINEWAN and his two wives, the Wahn, were camping out. Seeing some clouds gathering, they made a bark humpy. It came on to rain, and they all took shelter under it. Dinewan, when his wives were not...
The Mayamah : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], THE MAYAMAH THE blacks had all left their camp and gone away to attend a borah. Nothing was left in the camp but one very old dog, too old to travel. After the blacks had been gone about three days, one night came their enemies...
Mayrah, The Wind That Blows The Winter Away : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], MAYRAH, THE WIND THAT BLOWS THE WINTER AWAY AT the beginning of winter, the iguanas hide themselves in their homes in the sand; the black eagle hawks go into their nests; the garbarlee or shingle-backs hide themselves in little logs...
Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], BOOTOOLGAH THE CRANE AND GOONUR THE KANGAROO RAT, THE FIRE MAKERS IN the days when Bootoolgah, the crane, married Goonur, the kangaroo rat, there was no fire in their country. They had to eat their food raw or just dry it in the sun...
Goonur, The Woman Doctor : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], GOONUR, THE WOMAN-DOCTOR GOONUR was a clever old woman-doctor, who lived with her son, Goonur, and his two wives. The wives were Guddah the red lizard, and Beereeun the small, prickly lizard. One day the two wives had done something...
The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], THE GWINEEBOOS THE REDBREASTS GWINEEBOO and Goomai, the water rat, were down at the creek one day, getting mussels for food, when, to their astonishment, a kangaroo hopped right into the water beside them. Well they knew that he must be...
The Bunbundoolooeys : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], THE BUNBUNDOOLOOEYS THE mother Bunbundoolooey put her child, a little boy Bunbundoolooey, who could only just crawl, into her goolay. Goolay is a sort of small netted hammock, slung by black women on their backs, in which they carry...
Bougoodoogahdah The Rain Bird : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], BOUGOODOOGAHDAH THE RAIN BIRD BOUGOODOOGAHDAH was all old woman who lived alone with her four hundred dingoes. From living so long with these dogs she had grown not to care for her fellow creatures except as food. She and the dogs lived...
The Weeoonibeens And The Piggiebillah : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], THE WEEOONIBEENS AND THE PIGGIEBILLAH Two Weeoombeen brothers went out hunting. One brother was much younger than the other and smaller, so when they sighted an emu, the elder one said to the younger: "You stay quietly here and do not...
Mooregoo The Mopoke, And Mooninguggahgul : * "Australian Legendary Tales", by K. Langloh Parker, [1897], MOOREGOO THE MOPOKE, AND MOONINGUGGAHGUL THE MOSQUITO BIRD AN old man lived with his two wives, the Mooninguggahgul sisters, and his two sons. The old man spent all his time making boomerangs, until at last he had four nets full...