Motif
Child-centered storytelling around fire
child_centered_storytelling_around_fire
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
indigenous australian
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies COLLECTED BY MRS. K. LANGLOH PARKER / WITH INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. / CONTENTS / PREFACE; lines 127-224 confidence: medium
The legends were told by Aboriginal narrators, some remembering Mitchellan/Major Mitchell; mothers feared first wheel tracks, lifted children over them, and associated stepping on tracks with sores like those from a snake's track; the narrator describes Mitchellan's coming as the beginning of their end and says camp-fire legends later became a booklet for white children.
The legends are described as being told to piccaninnies around camp-fires and later offered to white children as a booklet.
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