How can the blacks invent beliefs to please the whites when they only reveal them to Mr. Howitt, after he has produced a bull roarer as a token of initiation?
At any rate, our hero had no reason to regret that portion of his life's drama in which Mr. Roarer had made his appearance.
After a few moments of indecision Mr. Roarer abandoned his design of pursuing the petticoats, and resolved that the gentleman should be his first victim.
There is no record of a bull-roarer among the Melanesian folk.
Masks are usually, perhaps invariably, worn at these ceremonies, and the bull-roarer is swung and shown to the lads.
He had never before been so much struck with the fact that this unfortunate bay was a roarer to a degree which required the roundest word for perdition to give you any idea of it.
Amongst the Arunta, women and children are taught that the noise of the bull-roarer during initiation ceremonies is the voice of the spirit Twanyirika.
M79 Use of the bull-roarer to quicken the fruits of the earth.
M79) The use of the bull-roarer to quicken the fruits of the earth is not peculiar to the Yabim.
The first, I believe, to point out the fertilising power ascribed to the bull-roarer by some savages was Dr.
It may very well be that a similar power to fertilise or multiply edible plants and animals has been ascribed to the bull-roarer by many other peoples who employ the implement in their mysteries.
It is true that the bull-roarer seems to have been associated with the rites of Dionysus rather than of Demeter; perhaps the sound of it was thought to mimick the bellowing of the god in his character of a bull.
For this reason the bull-roarer soon lost its place in the ranks of musical instruments and became purely an instrument of magic, in which function also it was used only temporarily.
Nevertheless, there has been discovered, again among the Bushmen, a form of bull-roarer of an especially primitive character.
In other forms of the bull-roarer in which the feathers were displaced by a flat wooden board--whose only resemblance to a bird was a slight similarity in form--the noise was more intense but the tone less clear.
Here it is employed as an instrument of noise and magic, similarly to the bull-roarer of the Australians.
No wonder that the bull-roarer is sometimes used to bring luck in a mystic way to hunters.
A herd-boy has been seen to swing a bull-roarer of his own making, with the result that the beasts were soon running frantically towards the byre.
It is not surprising, therefore, to find a carved human face appearing on the bull-roarer in New Guinea, and again away in North America, whilst in West Africa it is held to contain the voice of a very god.
Are the spear-thrower and the bull-roarer inevitably thought of as alive?
Similarly among their neighbours the Anula the women imagine that the droning sound of the bull-roarer is produced by a spirit called Gnabaia, who swallows the lads at initiation and afterwards disgorges them in the form of initiated men.
Now, the same peoples who still employ the bull-roarer as a sacred instrument also bedaub their bodies with clay, for no apparent reason unless it may be to frighten their enemies or repel intruders.
In South Africa, Mr. Tylor has proved that the bull-roarer is employed to call the men only to the celebration of sacred functions, and the instrument itself is described in Theal's Kaffir Folklore.
First, the bull-roarer is to be found in almost every country in the world, and among the most primitive peoples.
The bull-roarer is an instrument easily invented by savages, and easily adopted into the ritual of savage mysteries.
Here then, in Zuni, we have the bull-roarer again, and once more we find it employed as a summons to the mysteries.
The common bull-roarer is an inexpensive toy which any one can make.
In the first place the bull-roarer is associated with mysteries and initiations.
Here, in short, we have a brief but complete description of the bull-roarer of the Australian turndun.
But when the bull-roarer warmed to its work, it justified its name, producing what may best be described as a mighty rushing noise, as if some supernatural being 'fluttered and buzzed his wings with fearful roar.
We have studied the bull-roarer in Australia, we have caught a glimpse of it in England.
To study the bull-roarer is to take a lesson in folklore.
There are students who would found on this a hypothesis that the various races that use the bull-roarer all descend from the same stock.
The bull-roarer has been, and is, a sacred and magical instrument in many and widely separated lands.
M176 Use of the bull-roarer at initiatory ceremonies in Australia.
The religious or magical use of the bull-roarer is best known in Australia.
Belief of the Dieri that by sounding a bull-roarer a newly initiated young man produces a supply of edible snakes and lizards.
Among the Caffres of South Africa and the Boloki of the Upper Congo the bull-roarer is a child's toy, but yet is thought to be endowed with magical virtue.
Among the Minangkabauers of Sumatra the bull-roarer (gasieng) is used by a rejected lover to induce the demons to carry off the soul of the jilt and so drive her mad.
The bull-roarer is used as a sacred or magical instrument for the making of rain by the Zuni and other Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, also by the Navajos and Apaches of the same region, and by the Utes of Nevada and Utah.
The Roarer started obediently out into the rain-storm with his little basket; he did not run, but walked slowly, as if the storm was nothing compared to his settled melancholy.
As we rode away in the ox-cart, the Roarer looked wistfully after us through the bars; but his melancholy mood was upon him again, and he had not the heart even to wag his tail.
The Roarer laid himself down behind his master, and his tail still wagging, sounded upon the floor with a regular tap.
You just let me send the Roarer over to the mine, he'll tell Sol; Sol can tell the Community folks, so they'll know where you be.
In its tales and myths it may preserve the memory of a stage of morality which the adult community has outgrown, and has left behind as far it has left behind the bull-roarer or the bow and arrow.
Or is the bull-roarer a toy that might be accidentally hit on in any country where men can sharpen wood and twist the sinews of animals into string?
The bull-roarer has not been made a subject of particular research; very probably later investigations will find it in other parts of the modern world besides America, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.
The bull-roarer has, of all toys, the widest diffusion, and the most extraordinary history.
The windy roaring noise made by the bull-roarer might readily be considered by savages, either as an invitation to a god who should present himself in storm, or as a proof of his being at hand.
I have myself been fortunate enough to encounter the bull-roarer on the soil of ancient Greece and in connection with the Dionysiac mysteries.
Here, in short, we have a brief but complete description of the bull-roarer of the Australian turndun.
In Australia, according to Howitt and Fison, {34} the bull-roarer is regarded with religious awe.
But Roarer could not, for Maggo, the big elephant, had placed herself in front of the door of his cage, and was leaning against it.
And Maggo was so big and heavy that Roarer could not push open the iron-barred door.
The bull-roarer as well as the monster bears the name of balum, and the building in which the novices are lodged before and after the operation is called the monster's house (balumslum).
At least one such bull-roarer is kept in the lum or bachelors' clubhouse of every village, and the women and uninitiated boys are forbidden to see it under pain of death.
Sidenote: Tami lads supposed to be swallowed by a monster at circumcision; the monster and the bull-roarer are both called kani.
Before this march past takes place, each of the candidates is struck by the chief with a bull-roarer on his chin and brow.
Then an old man takes a bull-roarer and taps with it on the bamboo tube, naming all the sorcerers in the neighbouring villages.
An animal that is a roarer should not be used for breeding purposes.
It usually leaves the animal after convalescence perfectly healthy and as good as it was before, but sometimes leaves it a roarer or is followed by the development of deep-seated abscesses which may prove fatal.
Grunters are not always roarers, but, as it is a common thing for a roarer to grunt, such an animal must be looked upon with suspicion until he is thoroughly tried by pulling a load or galloped up a hill.
After crossing the bridge of the Roarer rapid the bed of the river has again to be traversed and at a distance of about 700 feet you reach the rapid of the Rocket.
One of them told me that the natives sometimes descended the cliffs between the Roarerand the Rocket Falls in order to carry off the fledglings from the nests of the blue rock pigeons, and said that several lives had thus been lost.
That's tough luck," commented Roarerwith a squeak of emotion.
Roarer did not disclose that said twins were almost as old as himself.
Roarer went to the window, and like the prophet of old contemplated the Promised Land that his feet were not to tread.
Roarer fell to his knees and groped without avail, then crawled out on all fours, gazing up disconsolately into the faces of the other men.
Roarer endorsed, "but we've got to get somethin' else.
Bronco, Holy and Roarer stood bunched together and surveyed the assemblage with brooding eyes.
Limber's meditations covered many moments, but neither Bronco, Roarer nor Holy interrupted his thoughts.
With hasty awkwardness Holy, Roarer and Bronco added to the donation Limber laid on the table, glad there was something at last that could be done.
Shet up," boomed Holy's voice treacherously, and many heads turned toward them, while Holy tried to efface himself behind Roarer and Bronco.
He read the hand-written notice deliberately to the end twice before he turned to where Roarer and Holy were inspecting silver-mounted spurs--which they did not need, but intended to buy because they had to spend their money someway.
Roarer danced around, struggling to fasten a collar, his face becoming apoplectic; while Holy, with his entire vocabulary and muscular strength, was coaxing his feet into patent leather shoes a size too small.
Roarer and Bronco slid the freezer until it was outside the door.
Holy rescued it from the floor where it had dropped as Roarermassaged his throat.
Somerfield didn't and the old buck whirled that bull-roarer over him ever so long, and the red-eyed hag cursed and spat at him, but he never budged.
The memory of the old hag and the bull-roarer was in my mind.
As thou dost purpose to live, when thou hast retired thyself to some such place, where neither roarer nor harlot is: so mayest thou here.
As it was, it was bellows to mend; and Calcott's roarer roared as surelyroarer never roared before.
It was the summons to all who had been initiated at the mysteries--the sacred bull-roarer was calling the assembly of the men of Boupari.
By this time the bull-roarer had ceased to bellow among the rocks.
When someone makes the bull-roarer resound, they say that it is the voice of the ancestor making himself heard.
It also happens very frequently that the inventor of the bull-roarer is also considered the founder of the rites of initiation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roarer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crock; dog; goat; hack; jade; nag; plug; rogue; scalawag; stiff
