Gwineeboo

Role: old woman · First appears: Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts

One day, Gwineeboo and Goomai killed a kangaroo and hid its body beneath the weeds in the creek. When Quarrian and Gidgereegah refused to share the meat with Gwineeboo, Goomai and Gwineeboo’s little son, who cried for some, the women shut themselves and the boy inside a dardurr and sang to summon a storm against the young men.

As the storm came, Quarrian and Gidgereegah ran to the dardurr and begged for shelter. Gwineeboo refused: “there was no kangaroo meat for us: there is no dardurr shelter for you.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Gwineeboo and Goomai killed the kangaroo and hid its body under the weeds.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts · 📍 the creek)
  • With: Goomai the kangaroo (Tale 9)
  • “When the two old women had killed the kangaroo they hid its body under the weeds in the creek”
• Quarrian and Gidgereegah refused the women and child any kangaroo meat.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
  • With: Quarrian (Tale 9) Gidgereegah Goomai little Gwineeboo (Tale 9)
  • “Goomai, Gwineeboo, and her little boy went over to Quarrian and Gidgereegah, and begged for some of the meat, but the young men would give them none, though little Gwineeboo cried piteously for some.”
• Gwineeboo and Goomai shut themselves and the boy inside a dardurr and sang to invoke a storm.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
  • With: Goomai little Gwineeboo (Tale 9)
  • “They built a big dardurr for themselves, shutting themselves and the little boy up in it. Then they began singing a song which was to invoke a storm to destroy their enemies”
• Gwineeboo refused Quarrian and Gidgereegah shelter from the storm.(Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts)
  • With: Quarrian (Tale 9) Gidgereegah
  • “Gidgereegah and Quarrian came running over to the dardurr and begged the women to let them in. “No,” shrieked Gwineeboo above the storm, “there was no kangaroo meat for us: there is no dardurr shelter for you.”

Tale 9 · The Gwineeboos The Redbreasts

• child: little Gwineeboo (Tale 9) “The little son of Gwineeboo watched them from the bank.”
• enemies with Quarrian (Tale 9) (The women considered the hunters their enemies.) “Then they began singing a song which was to invoke a storm to destroy their enemies, for so now they considered Quarrian and Gidgereegah.”
• enemies with Gidgereegah (The women considered the hunters their enemies.) “Then they began singing a song which was to invoke a storm to destroy their enemies, for so now they considered Quarrian and Gidgereegah.”

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