Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Picca…
K. Langloh Parker
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A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe,
known among themselves as Noongahburrahs. (3 hr 23 min)
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I really enjoyed this
Timothy Ferguson
I foudn the structure of the stories, really interesting. Each seems to have a biological or geophysical fact in it ("...and that's why we get grinding stones rom that particular mountain...")piece of wisdom in it. Many seem to have a reciprocal curse as their ending "You'll suffer X for ever! Really, well then you'll suffer Y until X stops!". Many have a layer of patriarchal violenece in them which I wonder if it was there in the original, or if they were added in by the white woman who is interpreting the stories for a European audience. All in all, a very interesting book.
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Blitzed Mamba
Can't speak for the quality of the text itself.