Ritual musical instrument used for communicating over great distances.
1 That calamity was produced by a man's showing a woman the mystic turndun , a native sacred toy.
2 The Greek and savage use of the turndun , or bribbun of Australia in the mysteries is familiar to students.
3 Unfortunately, Lobeck, who published the Greek description of the turndun (Aglaophamus, 700), was unacquainted with the modern ethnological evidence.
4 Among the Kurnai, the sacred mystery of the turndun is preserved by a legend, which gives a supernatural sanction to secrecy.
5 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.
6 When boys go through the mystic ceremony of initiation they are shown turnduns , or bull-roarers, and made to listen to their hideous din.
7 'Some children of the Kurnai in playing about found a turndun , which they took home to the camp and showed the women.
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