Brisbane River in Queensland, use of bull-roarers on the, xi.
Guatusos of Costa Rica, use of bull-roarers among the, xi.
Walpi, Pueblo Indian village, use of bull-roarers at, xi.
Caripunas Indians of Brazil, use of bull-roarers among the, xi.
The passage of the novices into the monster's belly is represented by causing them to defile past a row of men who hold bull-roarers aloft over the heads of the candidates.
The monster who swallows the lads is named Ngosa, which means "Grandfather"; and the same name is given to the bull-roarers which are swung at the festival.
The growl is in fact no other than the humming note of bull-roarers swung by men, who are concealed within the edifice.
And there are smaller bull-roarers which emit shriller notes and are thought to represent the shrill-voiced wives of the ancient heroes.
When he comes, a festival is held in his honour and bull-roarers are swung.
The bull-roarers which are used at the initiatory ceremonies are kept in the principal clubhouse of the village.
Assembly-houses are erected only for the circumcision ceremonies, and the bull-roarers used on these occasions are kept in them.
The reply follows in the shape of another muffled roar of the bull-roarers from within the building.
So amid the noise of weeping and wailing the procession passes into the forest, and the booming sound of the bull-roarers dies away in the distance.
Why, let the roarers meddle with me another time: as for flying, I scorn it; I killed 'em like a man.
There is no mention of bull-roarers in the Spanish sources for the peninsula; however, one archaeological specimen has been recovered from the surface of a cave in the San Julio Basin, to the east of Comondú.
The use of bull-roarers for ceremonial purposes was nearly universal in southern California (Drucker, 1937, p.
These bull roarers sound curiously uncanny--I did not wonder the uninitiated accepted the spirit theory as to their origin.
Later in the season they whirl bull-roarers in the fields and call out the names of the dead, believing that this makes the crops to thrive.
They think that by whirling bull-roarers they produce good crops of yams, sweet potatoes, and bananas; and in accordance with this belief they call the implement "the mother of yams.
Guatusos of Costa Rica, use of bull-roarers among the, ii.
Kiwai, island off New Guinea, use of bull-roarers in, ii.
Arizona and New Mexico, use of bull-roarers in, ii.
And besides the big bull-roarers with gruff voices there are little bull-roarers with shrill voices, which represent the shrill-voiced wives of the ancient heroes.
M179) Among the tribes on the Brisbane River in Queensland the weird sound of the bull-roarers swung at initiation was believed by the women and children to be made by the wizards in swallowing the boys and bringing them up again as young men.
The Nahuqua and other Brazilian tribes use bull-roarers in their masked dances, but make no mystery of them.
The Caripunas Indians of the Madeira River, in Brazil, sound bull-roarers in lamentations for the dead.
Among the Koskimo Indians of British Columbia the sound of the bull-roarers is supposed to be the voice of a spirit who comes to fetch away the novices.
Similarly the Yabim of German New Guinea imagine that by twirling bull-roarers while they mention the names of the dead they produce a fine crop of taro.
The Zuni Indians of New Mexico whirl bull-roarers "to create enthusiasm" among the mythical beings who are supposed to cause rain, or for the purpose of making them gather in the air over the village.
While the operation is proceeding, a prodigious noise is made by the swinging of bull-roarers to represent the roar of the dreadful being who is in the act of swallowing the young man.
I have no direct evidence as to the use of these Maori bull-roarers in the Maori mysteries.
We have seen already that the uninitiated may not touch the churinga or the bull-roarers under any circumstances.
It should be remarked that the bull-roarers are used in the same way (Mathews, Aboriginal Tribes of N.
Bull-roarers and churinga never come near a dead man.
The human voice is not sufficient for the task; it is reinforced by means of artificial processes: boomerangs are beaten against each other; bull-roarers are whirled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roarers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
