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Daisy Bates, Aboriginal Stellar Myths (nonfiction extract)

Daisy Bates, Aboriginal Stellar Myths (nonfiction extract)

by Stories from the Archive | Aug 12, 2022 | Nonfiction extract

by Daisy Bates. Tribes, now far apart, whose very dialect has changed in the centuries, possess myths and legends whose similarity is evidence of tribal unity in some far-off time.

“Old-Women’s Stories”: Mrs Langloh Parker’s Preface to Australian Legendary Tales

“Old-Women’s Stories”: Mrs Langloh Parker’s Preface to Australian Legendary Tales

by Stories from the Archive | May 13, 2022 | Nonfiction extract

by Mrs Langloh Parker Barbarians did the dreaming of the world, poetry arose in their fancies, and poetry, in spite of facts and science, resolutely refuses to ‘follow darkness like a dream.’ Mrs. Parker’s collection demonstrates that, amongst the...

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