little Gwineeboo (Tale 9)

Also known as: little boy / little son of Gwineeboo · Role: son · First appears: Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts

Life events

• Goomai struck little Gwineeboo on the mouth, and blood stained his breast red.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
  • With: Goomai
  • “Goomai was so angry with little Gwineeboo for keeping on asking for kangaroo, and thereby making the young men suspicious, that she hit him so hard on the mouth to keep him quiet, that the blood came, and trickled down his breast, staining it red.”
• Quarrian and Gidgereegah refused the women and child any kangaroo meat.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
  • With: Quarrian (Tale 9) Gidgereegah Gwineeboo Goomai
  • “Goomai, Gwineeboo, and her little boy went over to Quarrian and Gidgereegah, and begged for some of the meat, but the young men would give them none, though little Gwineeboo cried piteously for some.”
• Gwineeboo and Goomai shut themselves and the boy inside a dardurr and sang to invoke a storm.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
  • With: Gwineeboo Goomai
  • “They built a big dardurr for themselves, shutting themselves and the little boy up in it. Then they began singing a song which was to invoke a storm to destroy their enemies”

Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts

• parent: Gwineeboo “The little son of Gwineeboo watched them from the bank.”

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Extracted from the original text of Australian Legendary Tales. Made with Rho MD.