Posts Tagged ‘aboriginal’
There are a lot of Aboriginal legends I could highlight on Squidoo. The trouble is getting one or, hopefully, a few, that are in the public domain of folklore and that don’t offend anyone.
I am a white Australian, an export from Ireland (more correctly a transport), and some of the indigenous stories shouldn’t even be repeated by a woman as in certain cultures these are mens’ stories.
I wrote up the legend of how The Frog caused the Great Flood as I read this in my Catholic School Reader in Grade 2, when I was seven.
The laughing Frog was one of my favourites (along with the tale of Grace Darling, and the one about the children who were Lost in the Bush) and I loved it when our teacher, Mrs Brophy of fond memory, would read some of the animal conversation aloud to us.
On Spring days, when we had a heavy downpour in Melbourne, we would splash home from school telling each other that the Frog was laughing again. That was in the days when we actually had rain! No more heavy rain now, we’re scratching to get a slight drizzle and we catch every drop of that in our rain tanks.
