Significats de turndun en anglès

That calamity was produced by a man's showing a woman the mystic turndun, a native sacred toy.

The Greek and savage use of the turndun, or bribbun of Australia in the mysteries is familiar to students.

Unfortunately, Lobeck, who published the Greek description of the turndun (Aglaophamus, 700), was unacquainted with the modern ethnological evidence.

Among the Kurnai, the sacred mystery of the turndun is preserved by a legend, which gives a supernatural sanction to secrecy.

They are then told that, if ever a woman is allowed to see a turndun, the earth will open, and water will cover the globe.

When boys go through the mystic ceremony of initiation they are shown turnduns, or bull-roarers, and made to listen to their hideous din.

'Some children of the Kurnai in playing about found a turndun, which they took home to the camp and showed the women.