Bootoolgah

Role: fire maker · First appears: Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers

Life events

• Bootoolgah married Goonur.(Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers)
  • With: Goonur (Tale 7)
  • “In the days when Bootoolgah, the crane, married Goonur, the kangaroo rat, there was no fire in their country.”
• Bootoolgah and Goonur discovered how to make fire.(Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers)
  • With: Goonur (Tale 7)
  • “And hearing wisdom in her words, even as she said Bootoolgah did. And lo! after much rubbing, from the opening came a small flame. For as Goonur had said it would, the spark lit the grass, the bark smouldered and smoked, and so Bootoolgah the crane, and Goonur the kangaroo rat, discovered the art of fire making.”
• Bootoolgah and Goonur kept their fire-making secret from the tribes.(Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers · 📍 Bingahwingul scrub)
  • With: Goonur (Tale 7)
  • “This we will keep secret,” they said, “from all the tribes. When we make a fire to cook our fish we will go into a Bingahwingul scrub.”
• Boolooral and Quarrian discovered Bootoolgah and Goonur making fire and cooking fish.(Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers · 📍 Bingahwingul scrub)
  • With: Boolooral Quarrian (Tale 7) Goonur (Tale 7)
  • “They saw Bootoolgah and Goonur throw down their load of fish, open their comebee and take from it a stick, which stick, when they had blown upon it, they laid in the midst of a heap of leaves and twigs, and at once from this heap they saw a flame leap, which flame the fire makers fed with bigger sticks.”
• Beeargah stole the comebee and firestick from Bootoolgah and Goonur.(Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers)
  • With: Goonur (Tale 7) Beeargah
  • “Then up jumped the sick man from behind her, seized the comebee with his combo, cut it open, snatched forth the firestick, set fire to the heap of grass ready near where he had lain, and all before the two realised their loss.”
• Beeargah escaped Bootoolgah and spread fire with the stolen firestick.(Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers)
  • With: Beeargah
  • “As he ran he fired the grass with the stick he still held.”
• Bootoolgah and Goonur lost their secret as fire became common property of the gathered tribes.(Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers)
  • With: Goonur (Tale 7) Beeargah
  • “Bootoolgah, finding he could not catch Beeargah, and seeing fires everywhere, retired from the pursuit, feeling it was useless now to try and guard their secret, for it had now become the common property of all the tribes there assembled.”

Tale 7 · Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat, The Fire Makers

• married with Goonur (Tale 7) “In the days when Bootoolgah, the crane, married Goonur, the kangaroo rat, there was no fire in their country.”

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