Lexicographical Neighbors of Turndun
Literary usage of Turndun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origins of Religion, and Other Essays by Andrew Lang (1908)
"Let us next observe a remarkable peculiarity of the turndun, or Australian 1
Tansanias, in. 15. When the boys were being cruelly scourged, the priestess of ..."
2. Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang (1893)
"Let us next observe a remarkable peculiarity of the turndun, or Australian
bull-roarer. The bull- roarer in England is a toy. In Australia, according to ..."
3. Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang (1884)
"Let us next observe a remarkable peculiarity of the turndun, or Australian
bull-roarer. The bull- roarer in England is a toy. In Australia, according to ..."
4. Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang (1901)
"As the mystic uses of the turndun in Australia, New Zealand, New Mexico and ...
Unfortunately, Lobeck, who published the Greek description of the turndun ..."
5. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"The shape, however, in Greece we must imagine to have been that of a cone or "
peg-top," not pointed at both ends like the turndun or " bull-roarer. ..."
6. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"... begets turndun, who first makes the bull-roarers in actual use amongst the
Kurnai, and then becomes a porpoise." Further, Mythology is reinforced by ..."
7. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Parish Register Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"... begets turndun, who first makes the bull-roarers in actual use amongst the
Kurnai, and then becomes a porpoise." Further, Mythology is reinforced by ..."
8. Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang (1886)
"... in your time, resorted to the sorceress with her magical ' bull-roarer ' or
turndun.1 Yes, Lucian, we are the same vain creatures of doubt and dread, ..."
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