the women (Tale 5)

Also known as: the mothers / the women · Role: mothers of the Wahroogahs · First appears: Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah

In Tale 5, Gooloo persuaded the women to go hunting, promising to feed and care for their hungry children while they were away. The women left the children with her and set out to gather food. Soon after returning to camp, they found that both the children and Gooloo were gone, so they searched and called aloud for them. The women were also the wives of the men (Tale 5), who had gone to hunt dinewan and bowrah.

Relationship record

Life events

• The women left their children in Gooloo’s care and went gathering.(Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah)
  • With: the children (Tale 5) Gooloo
  • “Having listened to the words of Gooloo, the women decided to do as she said, and, leaving their children with her, they started forth with empty comebees, and armed with combos, with which to chop out the bees' nests and opossums, and with yam sticks to dig up yams.”
• The women returned to camp and discovered that the children and Gooloo were gone.(Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah)
  • With: the children (Tale 5) Gooloo
  • “Soon they reached the camp, but, alas! where were their children? And where was Gooloo the magpie?”

Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah

• with Gooloo (Gooloo deceives the women and takes their children.) “Gooloo had persuaded them to go hunting, promising if they did so that she would feed the hungry Wahroogahs, and care for them while they were away”
• child: the children (Tale 5) “The mothers hunted all round for them, and called aloud the names of their children and Gooloo.”
• married with the men (Tale 5) “until your husbands return with the dinewan and bowrah they have gone forth to slay.”

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