Australian folklore / Bill Beatty
- Bib ID:
- 4201273
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beatty, Bill
- Description:
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- Smithfield, N.S.W. : Gary Allen, c2007
- 240 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 31 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781921276057
- Summary:
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p. 25 Story of the Black Ghost of Yarralumla : story about an Aboriginal ghost said to haunt the grounds of Government House in Canberra; p. 27; Accounts of the bunyip; p. 40-41: wreck of the Zuytdorp and possible assimilation of Dutch survivors into an Aboriginal tribe; p. 49: Story of John Petrie's warning from Aboriginal people not to climb Mount Beerwah or he would be blinded by a great spirit living on the summit; p. 91-94 : account of Isabella Kelly's extermination of Aboriginal people of the Manning River district.
- Notes:
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- "This book contains the majority of material originally published in 'A treasury of Australian folk tales and traditions' and 'Tales of old Australia', first published in 1960 and 1966 respectively"--p. vi.
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2007
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