Ritual musical instrument used for communicating over great distances.
1By this time the bull-roarer had ceased to bellow among the rocks.
2Through it all the voice of the King whirled like a bull-roarer.
3The memory of the old hag and the bull-roarer was in my mind.
4To study the bull-roarer is to take a lesson in folklore.
5Are the spear-thrower and the bull-roarer inevitably thought of as alive?
6The bull-roarer has, of all toys, the widest diffusion, and the most extraordinary history.
7The bull-roarer has been, and is, a sacred and magical instrument in many and widely separated lands.
8The bull-roarer is an instrument easily invented by savages, and easily adopted into the ritual of savage mysteries.
9A sound like a single bell chime followed by the growl of a bull-roarer suddenly came to our ears.
10There are students who would found on this a hypothesis that the various races that use the bull-roarer all descend from the same stock.
11Nearly all of them had ratchets or droning pipes or bull-roarers or circle-bowed strings clamoring out their own particular recognition signal.
12When boys go through the mystic ceremony of initiation they are shown turnduns, or bull-roarers, and made to listen to their hideous din.
Translations for bull-roarer