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Gods and Goddesses
Bugee - an evil Spirit - an old fellow-bald headed with the exception of a few grey hairs, stature short - [dentre?] protuberant; He -------- ------- -------and eats all the blacks meat without cooking
Yarree yarwoo . another spirit with 4 eyes. he takes a large bag (Gooli) and gets [Eats chicken?] cold; all sickness is attributed to him
Nilegun , a Spirit destitute of hair, with immense nails which he inserts in the bodies of the blacks
Wabbooee The greatest Spirit of all ; he commands the sea land and weather, his residence is in the North, and water springs up all round him of a blood color ; when he wishes the rain to cease, he calls out Currca yalloo Colly yarrca , his stature is immense, and so great a Veneration have the Blacks for him that if another tribe or black speaks irreverently of him, the punishment of death ensures , he changes his residence to the Skies, and whenever he ties the world will be destroyed by large rocks which fall from Heaven Nulla Nulla his wife lived in the South , a gin defaming her is punished as the black man for his disrespect to her husband - she is punished at the hands of the other Gins --------- Mulla Mulla died - darkness rests upon the Earth till the husband recovered it - She presided over the night He over the day She is very large of [pardon?] - no - spiritualities
Nuraco a Spirit residing in trees - assists ------
Song
X Wall wall amagh minambroquia
Thoosa bowillana gna moombera
Bollesangbilla qua careere burree
Wall wall asnagh ----------------------
Awoosalay [needthunonbay?] mounare day
[Bear?] bay lay awooralay
Bunberree qui beeroerday burambatha
Nundowaleg -------------------------
[Goolubul?] qua yaninay thoronbagh
Walla ye therawallay yoore dan nay
Beorunquia boon may
Song
Curreole yananay curroolbay
Yanaray yaurngungeree [brass?]
[Gurreele?] yaranay mingabanlay
Waerinay cuneelbay yanana
[Yomagungereeba curreela?]
Yanaray ---------Porh