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Main Title:	Aboriginal fables and legendary tales / [compiled] by A.W. Reed ; illustrated by E.H. Papps.
Author:	Reed, A. W. (Alexander Wyclif), 1908-1979 Papps, E.H.
Imprint:	Terrey Hills, NSW : Reed, 1965.
Collation:	ill., bib., pbk ; 19 cm. 144 p. :

Summary:	The adventures of Yooneeara -- The anger of Pund-jil -- Baiame's gift of manna -- Bees and honey -- Black paint and red ochre -- The cannibal woman -- The case of the moth -- The coming of death -- The coming of spring -- Dingo and native cat -- The dogs that were really snakes -- The dugong, the cockatoos, and the chicken hawk -- The fate of mocking bird -- A fight with kurrea -- The first bullroarer -- The first man in the Southern Cross -- Fish hawk and lyrebird -- Fish moon -- The flies and the bees -- The flight of the bandicoot -- The frog and the flies -- The frog food of the bunyip -- The frogs at flood time -- The frog, the wallaby, and the dugong -- The gifts of the sun goddess -- Goanna and his stripes -- The great flood -- The hero who was changed into a mountain -- How animals came to Australia -- How bats and shags were made -- How black snake became poisonous -- How blue heron brings in the tide -- How koala lost his tail -- How platypus was born -- How the Murray River was made -- How the porcupine got his spines -- How possum and cat killed kangaroo -- How tortoise got a swollen back -- How tortoise lost his tail -- How tortoise got his shell -- How the waratah was made -- How the waratah became sweet -- How tree-runner made a rainbow for his wife -- Kangaroo and emu -- The kangaroo dance -- Koala and bunyip -- Kulai and Culma -- The last song of Priepriggie -- Laughing jackass and the sun fire -- The miserable mopoke -- The moon's reward -- The oyster brothers and the shark -- Rainbow into fish into mountain -- The rainbow snake -- The rainbow snakes -- The rebellious son of Baiame -- The red cloud -- Rolla-mano and the stars -- The sandpiper's misfortune -- The sculptor -- The shaming of rainbow snake -- The son of Mount Gambier -- The song of the tree frogs -- The spear with the stingray spines -- Spiny lizard and galah bird -- Sun, moon, and the spirit of birth -- Suns, moons, and stars -- Turtle, oyster, and whale -- Why curlew cries plaintively at night -- The winds -- The woman who changed into a kangaroo -- The wooden devil-devil -- Yara-ma-yha-who.
Subject:	Folklore Tales Australian short stories First Nations Australians First Nations Australians - - Stories and religion
ISBN:	0589070002 0730101991 (pbk.)
Notes:	Original Cataloguing-in-Publication entry had main heading under Reed. This work contains text and/or images that may cause offence to members of the Australian Indigenous community, or may be deemed inappropriate for some users on the grounds of sex, age or social status by the Australian Indigenous community.