Beyond the vale : death ritual and burial on the goldfields of Bendigo
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Vale: Mourning Remembrance and Spiritualism in Bendigo 1851-1901, p. 18-24
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Ghosts on the Goldfields : Ballarat as a haunted city
- Authors: Waldron, David , Waldron, Sharn
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Supernatural cities : Enchantment, anxiety and spectrality Chapter 11 p. 229-248
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- Description: The history of Ballarat, situated at the heart of the goldfields of central Victoria, Australia, is closely tied to the colonial experience. As the site of the Eureka Stockade rebellion, its history is linked to the foundation myths of Australian democracy. It boasts both the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E), situated on one of the suspected sites of the rebels' stockade, and Australia's premier open air museum, the theme park of Sovereign Hill, which re-enacts life on the goldfields of the 1950s and 1860s. In Ballarat itself many of the businesses utilise symbols of the goldfields in their advertising and trademarks, as do many of the street names, festivals and public events. The Victorian architectural heritage is highly prized and showcased to the thousands of visiting tourists on Sturt and Lydiard Streets, and particularly those who come each year for Ballarat's Heritage Weekend festival held in May. Yet there is a dark side to this history. The prosperity of the gold was built on the land of the Wathawurrung Aborigines who were displaced and marginalised, and suffered under the weight of colonial occupation and environmental devastation. Likewise, despite the prominence of stories surrounding those who became wealty on the goldfields of central Victoria, many who came to Ballarat during the Victorian era found themselves displaced and living in extremen poverty, facing disease, hunger and vulnerability to crime, prostitution and dangerous working conditions. It is these stories from the underbelly of Ballarat's heritage that form the fodder of a thriving dark tourist industry, expressed in popular ghost tours and supplemented by a rich heritage of ghost stories in folklore and popular culture. In the tension between these two discordant narratives Ballarat has become, in popular imagination, a haunted city.
Marketing madness : gothic heritage at the Ararat
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Pay Dirt : Ballarat and other gold towns Chapter 8 p.
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Myths and folklore on the goldfields
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Pay Dirt! Ballarat & other gold towns. Chapter 10 p.117-122
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- Description: Gold mines and mining Ballarat (Vic.)
Mystery marks and masons
- Authors: Waldron, David , Gervasoni, Clare
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Pay dirt! : Ballarat and other gold towns p.
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Homosexuality on the goldfields
- Authors: Pola, Brian , Waldron, David , Waldron, Gabriel
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 87-101
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- Description: There has been significant new literature on the experience of women and lesbians on the Goldfields but very little has been published on the experience of homosexual men. However, despite being a capital offence until 1864 and a criminal act until the 1980s, records from the mid-ninteenth-century indicate there was a well-established, perhaps even flourishing, culture of male homosexuality on Victoria's Goldfields. This culture had its origins in the long established and distinct underground 'gay' subculture of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century of Great Britain, 'Molly houses'. These illegal bars and taverns, essentially served a function as the gay bars of their day.
Playing the ghost : ghost hoaxing and supernaturalism in nineteenth-century Victoria
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 19-30
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- Description: Ghosts have long been a popular subject in central Victoria. Even in the late Goldfields era, belief in ghosts, ghost stories and hauntings were popular subjects for entertainment and attracted significant attention in the printed press and public gatherings and lectures. In a sense Ballarat was a 'haunted' city from very early in its coloniel history. With such a demand and popular interest in ghosts, Ballarat also became a hot bed of spiritualism and ghost hoaxing. This paper examines the history and context of ghost hoaxing in nineteenth-century colonial Victoria with a focus on Ballarat and the central Victorian region.
Invented traditions and regional identity: The case of the black dog of bungay
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: CFZ Year Book 2011 p.
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Celtic Religions
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion Chapter p. 128
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Folk Magic
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion Chapter p. 329-330
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Great Mother
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion Chapter p. 366
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Holy Grail
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion Chapter p. 406
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Paganism
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion Chapter p. 655-658
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Wicca
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion Chapter p. 960-962
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Witchcraft
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion Chapter p.
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Spiritualism and UFO Mythology
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Centre for Fortean Zoology Year Book 2009 Chapter p.
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Post-Modernism and Witchcraft Histories
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Paganism Chapter p.
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- Description: 2003007288