Piggiebillah

Role: individual character · First appears: Tale 6 · The Weeoonibeens And The Piggiebillah

Life events

Piggiebillah takes the emu for his supper and refuses to share it with the brothers.(Tale 6 · The Weeoonibeens And The Piggiebillah · 📍 Piggiebillah's camp)
- With: the elder Weeoombeen brother (Tale 6) the younger Weeoombeen brother (Tale 6)
- “Just what I want for my supper, he said, and so saying, dragged it away to his own camp. The Weeoombeens followed him and even helped him to make a fire to cook the emu, hoping by so doing to get a share given to them. But Piggiebillah would not give them any; he said he must have it all for himself.”
The nearby people spear Piggiebillah until he is too wounded to cry out.(Tale 6 · The Weeoonibeens And The Piggiebillah · 📍 Piggiebillah's camp)
- “As the spears fell thick on him, sticking out all over him, Piggiebillah cried aloud: ‘Bingehlah, Bingeblah. You can have it, you can have it.’ But the black fellows did not desist until Piggiebillah was too wounded even to cry out;”

enemies with the elder Weeoombeen brother (Tale 6) (Piggiebillah threatens the brothers, and the conflict continues when he takes their emu.) “If you do not tell me at once I will kill you both.”
enemies with the younger Weeoombeen brother (Tale 6) (Piggiebillah threatens the brothers, and the conflict continues when he takes their emu.) “If you do not tell me at once I will kill you both.”

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