Wise women of the dreamtime

Paperback, xvi + 144 pp. including notes and bibliography Aboriginal stories collected in the 19th and early 20th century by Catherine Stow, who wrote as K. Langloh Parker, with twentieth century commentary by Johanna Lambert. Contents: I. Tales of the ancestral powers Wahwee and Nerida: the water monster and the water lily Dinewan the man changes to Dinewan the emu Sturt's desert pea, the blood flower Where the frost comes from II. Tales of the animal powers Murgah Muggui, the spider Bralgah, the dancing bird Piggiebillah, the porcupine The rainbird III. Tales of the magical powers Moodoobahngul, the widow The wirreenun woman and her wirreenun son The redbreasts The wagtail and the rainbow I’ve. Tales of Healing Goonur, the woman-doctor The bunbundoolooeys