Aboriginal myths & legends: Age-Old Stories of the Australian Tribes [Hamlyn World Fairy Tales]

by Roland Robinson

Other authorsRoderick Shaw (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 1969

Status

Available

Call number

398.2

Publication

Paul Hamlyn (1969), 112 pages

Language

Physical description

112 p.; 9 inches

Local notes

A collection of stories that have been told by Aboriginal story-tellers to families and tribes round their camp fires for thousands of years.

• The Dingo-Man and the Maccassars
• The Two Brothers
• The Corroboree of Naariat
• Brolga and Jabiru
• A Little Boy Crying
• Dooruk the Emu
• The Lyre Bird
• Murgah Muggui
• Billai
• The Bunyee Bunyee or Bunyip
• Yaraandoo
• Melapi
• The Black Swan
• The BLood of Marindi
• The Native Bear
• The Seven Sisters
• The Buloogan and the Gaungun
• The Yams and the Kangaroos
• The Winking Owl
• The Curlew and the Owl
• The Travellers
• The Platypus
• The Flowering Tea-Tree
• The Kangaroo-Man
• The Maker of Boomerangs
• The Porcupine Ejenak
• The Wild Women
• The Wild Cherry Tree
• The Gold of Billy Bulloo
• Under the She-Oaks
• Nagacork's Goodbye

An interestingly illustrated collection of short tales from Australian Aboriginal folklore. However, I have my doubts as to their authenticity (Porcupines? Bears? Oaks? God? Hm...)
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