the children (Tale 5)

Also known as: the Wahroogahs / the children / the little Wahroogabs · Role: children · 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) 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.”
• 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: Gooloo
  • “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) Gooloo
  • “Soon they reached the camp, but, alas! where were their children? And where was Gooloo the magpie?”
• The men searched for the lost children but found no trace of them.(Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah · 📍 the bush)
  • With: the men (Tale 5)
  • “The men hunted the bush round for miles, but found no trace of the lost Wahroogahs, though they too heard at times a noise as of children's voices wailing.”

Tale 5 · Gooloo The Magpie, And The Wahroogah

• parent: the women (Tale 5) “The mothers hunted all round for them, and called aloud the names of their children and Gooloo.”
• parent: the men (Tale 5) “Did we not go forth to gain food for you and our children?”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

⭐ Constellation map → · 📖 Read the original → · 🗂 Character index → · 🕰 Chronicle → · 📍 Places →

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