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Strange Illuminations: Min Min Lights Australian Ghost Light Stories
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January 23, 2006
The Min Min Light is a small, close to groundlevel, ball of light said to haunt particular localities in Australia. Early white settlers knew it as the willothe wisp and the jackolantern. Indigenous inhabitants called it the Dead Mens CampFire or the DebilDebil. Min Min Light narratives are examined with regard to motifs and narrative forms; the interpretations and beliefs engendered by the accounts; and the social context of a regional lore now utilised in tourism promotion.
Published Online: 2006-01-23
Published in Print: 2003-05-21
Copyright © 2003 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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- Strange Illuminations: Min Min Lights Australian Ghost Light Stories
- Fortunatus in Italy. A History between Translations, Chapbooks and Fairy Tales
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- Lauri Honko (19322002)
- Leea Virtanen (19352002)
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- Eingesandte Bücher
