Gooloo

Also known as: Gooloo the magpie · Role: magpie · First appears: Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah

Life events

The women left their children in Gooloo’s care and went gathering.(Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah)
- With: the women (Tale 5) the children (Tale 5)
- “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.”
Gooloo took the children to her home in a hollow tree and made all secure.(Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah · 📍 a hollow tree)
- With: the children (Tale 5)
- “When the women had gone, Gooloo gathered the children round her and fed them with durrie, hot from the coals. Honey, too, she gave them, and bumbles which she had buried to ripen. When they had eaten, she hurried them off to her real home, built in a hollow tree, a little distance away from where she had been cooking her durrie. Into her house she hurriedly thrust them, followed quickly herself, and made all secure.”
The women returned to camp and discovered that the children and Gooloo were gone.(Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah)
- With: the women (Tale 5) the children (Tale 5)
- “Soon they reached the camp, but, alas! where were their children? And where was Gooloo the magpie?”

with the women (Tale 5) (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”

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