Gidgereegah

Role: hunter · First appears: Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts

Life events

Quarrian and Gidgereegah refused the women and child any kangaroo meat.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
- With: Quarrian (Tale 9) Gwineeboo Goomai little Gwineeboo (Tale 9)
- “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 refused Quarrian and Gidgereegah shelter from the storm.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
- With: Quarrian (Tale 9) Gwineeboo
- “Gidgereegah and Quarrian came running over to the dardurr and begged the women to let them in. “No,” shrieked Gwineeboo above the storm, “there was no kangaroo meat for us: there is no dardurr shelter for you.”
Quarrian and Gidgereegah were changed into birds and afterwards into stars.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts · 📍 the sky)
- With: Quarrian (Tale 9)
- “First they were changed into birds and afterwards into stars in the sky, where they now are, Gidgereegah and Ouarrian with the kangaroo between them, still bearing the names that they bore on the earth.”

enemies with Gwineeboo (The women considered the hunters their enemies.) “Then they began singing a song which was to invoke a storm to destroy their enemies, for so now they considered Quarrian and Gidgereegah.”
enemies with Goomai (The women considered the hunters their enemies.) “Then they began singing a song which was to invoke a storm to destroy their enemies, for so now they considered Quarrian and Gidgereegah.”

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