Goomai

Role: old woman · First appears: Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts

Life events

Gwineeboo and Goomai killed the kangaroo and hid its body under the weeds.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts · 📍 the creek)
- With: Gwineeboo the kangaroo (Tale 9)
- “When the two old women had killed the kangaroo they hid its body under the weeds in the creek”
Goomai struck little Gwineeboo on the mouth, and blood stained his breast red.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
- With: little Gwineeboo (Tale 9)
- “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 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 and Goomai shut themselves and the boy inside a dardurr and sang to invoke a storm.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
- With: Gwineeboo little Gwineeboo (Tale 9)
- “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”

enemies with Quarrian (Tale 9) (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 Gidgereegah (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.