List of Titles

Myth, folklore and kitsch : The case of the Black Dog of Bungay

- Waldron, David

Authors: Waldron, David
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: Paper presented at Ownership and Appropriation: A joint international conference of the ASA, the ASAANZ and the AAS, Auckland : 8th-12th December 2008
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Description: The attack on St Mary’s Church in Bungay on August 4 1577 has become a centre piece of community identity and regional East Anglian folklore. The mythology surrounding the attack of the ghost dog Black Shuck have become an integral part of the community’s sense of English local identity in the face of the pressures posed by globalization, economic development and rapidly changing ethnic and generational demographics. The mythology has also attracted international attention from ghost hunters, crypto-zoologists, folklorists and novelists leading to an integration of indigenous folklore and globalised popular culture. This paper is based on archival research of the development of the local folklore surrounding Black Shuck in relation to major social and demographic challenges. In particular, this paper will focus on the use of the Black Shuck folklore to create a sense of eternal transcendent English ethnicity tied to the landscape and the use of supernaturalism to legitimate a folkloric construction of ethnic identity.

Australian animal folklore collection

- Waldron, David

Authors: Waldron, David
Date: 2011
Type: Text , Dataset
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Description: The Australian Animal Folklore Collection is held in the Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre (University of Ballarat E.J. Barker Library), and can be accessed by researchers in the Centre’s supervised reading room. The collection includes objects such as plaster paw prints, images, documents, reports, and newspaper articles relating to big cat scares that have become legendary over a number of generations. Themes within the collection relate to cryptozoology; big cats and dogs in the Australian bush, such as pumas, panthers, mountain lions, thylacines (Tasmanian Tigers); and legends such as the Tantanoola Tiger, the Black Dog of Bungay, the Grampians Puma, and the Gippsland Panther. The collection was used by Dr David Waldron during his research into Australian big cat mythology and the book ‘Snarls from the Tea-tree: Big Cat Folklore’ co-authored by David Waldron and Simon Townsend. The Australian Animal Folklore collection has been supplemented with donations by other interested researchers such as David Pepper-Edwards. Aspects of the collection can be viewed online via www.victoriancollections.net.au with the search term “Australian Animal Folklore Collection”.
Description: The Australian Animal Folklore Collection is held in the Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre (University of Ballarat E.J. Barker Library), and can be accessed by researchers in the Centre’s supervised reading room. The collection includes objects such as plaster paw prints, images, documents, reports, and newspaper articles relating to big cat scares that have become legendary over a number of generations. Themes within the collection relate to cryptozoology; big cats and dogs in the Australian bush, such as pumas, panthers, mountain lions, thylacines (Tasmanian Tigers); and legends such as the Tantanoola Tiger, the Black Dog of Bungay, the Grampians Puma, and the Gippsland Panther. The collection was used by Dr David Waldron during his research into Australian big cat mythology and the book ‘Snarls from the Tea-tree: Big Cat Folklore’ co-authored by David Waldron and Simon Townsend. The Australian Animal Folklore collection has been supplemented with donations by other interested researchers such as David Pepper-Edwards. Aspects of the collection can be viewed online via www.victoriancollection.net.au with the search term “Australian Animal Folklore Collection”.

Australian Animal Folklore Collection

Date: 2011
Type: Text , Collection
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Description: The Australian Animal Folklore Collection is held in the Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre (University of Ballarat E.J. Barker Library), and can be accessed by researchers in the Centre’s supervised reading room. The collection includes objects such as plaster paw prints, images, documents, reports, and newspaper articles relating to big cat scares that have become legendary over a number of generations. Themes within the collection relate to cryptozoology; big cats and dogs in the Australian bush, such as pumas, panthers, mountain lions, thylacines (Tasmanian Tigers); and legends such as the Tantanoola Tiger, the Black Dog of Bungay, the Grampians Puma, and the Gippsland Panther. The collection was used by Dr David Waldron during his research into Australian big cat mythology and the book ‘Snarls from the Tea-tree: Big Cat Folklore’ co-authored by David Waldron and Simon Townsend. The Australian Animal Folklore collection has been supplemented with donations by other interested researchers such as David Pepper-Edwards. Aspects of the collection can be viewed online via www.victoriancollection.net.au with the search term “Australian Animal Folklore Collection”.

Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore

- Waldron, David

Authors: Waldron, David
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book
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Description: Generations of Australians have grown up with the legend of Eureka and the familiar images of the gold rush in central Victoria. However, underneath these commonly known stories lies a stranger and darker past. As well as colonists, pioneers, soldiers and rebal miners, the colonial goldfields were home to spiritualists, secret societies, ghost-hoxers, bunyip legends and murderers. There are also the stories of those often forgotten in the goldfield histories - Indigenous peoples, immigrant communities, homosexuals, and the mentally ill. 'Goldfields and the gothic' is an anthology by local historians of the long buried legends, histories and folklore of the Victorian goldfields and their legacy today. Every historian has a collection of strange, buried pieces of history; this work begins the task of bringing them into the light.

Banshees

- Blee, Jillian

Authors: Blee, Jillian
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 43-54
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Description: The word Banshee is derived from the Gaelic 'bean si' or 'sidhe' meaning woman of the faeries. According to legend they appointed from the faery world to forewarn the members of the families who claim direct descent from the mythical Milesians, the fifth and last of the population waves to sweep Ireland during pre-historical times. Although originally the pre-serve of the clans of O'Neill, O'Brien, O'Grady, O'Connor and Kavanagh, with intermarraige down through the centuries they have become attached to many other Irish families including several with distinctly Norman heritage.

William Bailey and his haunted mansion

- Beggs-Sunter, Anne

Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 31-42
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Description: The discovery of gold at Ballarat in 1851 conferred incredible wealth on the community, the colony and the British Empire. Ballarat was literally a city 'built on gold'. However, the immigrants who made their fortunes from gold rarely indulged in conspicuous private displays of consumption. The exception was William Bailey. His Italianate mansion, completed in 1883, reflected his great success in speculative mining ventures in the Ballarat area.

The night Dixie came to town : The Shenandoah and the American Civil War in Ballarat

- Moll, Nicholas

Authors: Moll, Nicholas
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 116-129
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Description: That the American Civil War occurred exclusively within North America and affected specifically United States affair is a common misconception. Whilst the majority of the infantry conflict occured within and between the United and then Confederate States of America, the clash was such that it and its effects spread accross the globe. Also engaged in the American Civil War were Prussian military observers; political entanglements with the United Kingdom and Russia; Canadian volunteers within the Union army; smuggling and blockade running from the Bahamas into the Confederate States; cotton shortages in French industries that were heavily reliant on raw materials imported from the southern states; merchant raiding in the Pacific and Atlantic; along with countless other entanglements to Europe and their colonies into the conflict through one means or another. The tyranny of distance notwithstanding, Australia was no exception to the overflow of conflicts and consequences that resulted from the American Civil War.

Homosexuality on the goldfields

- Pola, Brian, Waldron, David, Waldron, Gabriel

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.

The mystery of the Moranghurk sculptures

- Cahir, David (Fred)

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred)
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 143-150
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Description: Since the earliest colonial days in Australia there have been a large number of reports of what have variously been described as stone carving, rock sculptures, earthen sculptures and rock engravings by Aboriginal people. The most prominent of these has been on the wooden sculptures emanating from northern Australia. Few anthropologists have minutely reported on what McCarthy described as examples of Aboriginal 'plastic art'. Aboriginal sculptures 'crudely fashioned' from beeswax, some of them 'made to represent human figures' but more generally 'modelled' to represent 'kangaroos, turtles, goannas, crocodiles and birds'. One of the most widely reported earthen carvings in what is now known as Victoria was described as the Challicum Bunyip. This was reputed to be an outline of a creature known as a bunyip, which was gouged into the ground. Other accounts of life-sized Aboriginal sculpture in Victoria are not numerous but certainly extant.

Mullawallah : spririt of times past, present and future

- Newton, Janice

Authors: Newton, Janice
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 165-180
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Description: When Mullawallah (also known as King Billy, Frank or William Wilson) died of exposure/exhaustion on 23 September 1896, many of the Ballarat community took a somewhat ghoulish interest in viewing the corpse at the Ballarat and District Hospital morgue. Mullawallah was laid in a black and gold open coffin, decorated with golden representations of Aboriginal weapons. The hospital gardener made a special boomerang-shaped wreath of wattle blossom which was placed on his chest. A few days later, on 26 September, hundreds of residents, including local Members of Parliament, assembled for the beginning of the funeral procession at the hospital. They wished to be part of what they believed was the historic occasion of the passing of the 'last of the Ballarat tribe'. Key local churches and institutions had jostled to organise this burial. Ultimately, it was the Anglican Archedeacon who presided over the service and the Methodists who donated the grave plot.

Indigenous folklore of the northern Wathawurrung peoples

- Clark, Ian

Authors: Clark, Ian
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 151-164
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Description: This paper examines four northern Wathawurrung legends and beliefs that were associated with five landmarks within their country - Lal Lal Falls, Black Hill (Kirrit Barreet, near Gordon), Lake Burrumbeet, and Mt Buninyong and Mt Elephant (Derrinallum). The first two sites are associated with Bundjil, the creator spirit. Lake Burrumbeet concerns a 'witch-like' creature, and the final two sites were involved in major conflict that explaines their unique topographical characteristics. The northern Wathawurrung country is bounded by the Werribee River in the east; the Fiery Creek in the west; and the Great Dividing Range in the north.

Goldfields freemasonry : Decoding the past

- Wickham, Dorothy

Authors: Wickham, Dorothy
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 102-115
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Description: In a period of global tension, the establishment of Freemasonry in Australia was tenuous. As a penal colony, political prisoners as well as a criminal element settled in the new colony. So, on 14 May 1803, when Irish convict Henry Browne Hayes attempted to hold a Freemasonic Lodge meeting in Port Jackson (Sydney), all Masons present were arrested and Hayes sentenced to 'hard labour at the New Settlement to formed at Van Diemen's Land'.

Buckley's Bunyip

- Donovan, Paul

Authors: Donovan, Paul
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 181-191
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Description: Australia's folklore has developed over two and a half centries of cultural diversity. It is influenced by stories, songs, traditions, rituals, and ideologies from every corner of the globe. Despite the attempted genocide of Australian Indigenous peoples and their languages and cultures, certain aspects of their mythology and folklore have been powerful enough, interesting enough, or pertinent enough to have survived and been translated, adapted or appropriated holus-bolus into the wider mainstream Australian mythology.

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