How To Use Roarer In A Sentence
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Rong specialists watch over a small ‘thunder house’ where ritual paraphernalia - especially bullroarers and special stones, sometimes too the jawbones of now departed ritual experts - are kept on a rack over a ritual fireplace.
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The bullroarer is a long flat board with notches, or slits, at one end, and a rope at the other.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Joseph Campbell told me a story (also recently recounted by Davidson Loehr) about the Australian tribe that used the bullroarer to keep people in awe of the gods.
A Time for Heresy
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Another traditional instrument still used in ritual and ceremonial events is the bullroarer, a thin piece of wood suspended from a string and swung in a circle.
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She was spoken of with applause under such titles as "a staver," "a pealer," "a roarer to work"; and Sol himself had an awful sense of responsibility to her in this regard.
Oldtown Folks
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 They decided to zip around the world using an abandoned Outback town as their headquarters and the bullroarer-spinning character find of 1988, Gateway, to teleport them where they needed to go!
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The buzzing sound rose like a din in some inner ear and I thought of the bullroarers of the Australian Aborigines.
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Their bullroarers, or sacred "tunduns," are of two types, the "grandfather" or "man tundun," distinguished by its deep tone, and the "woman tundun," which, being smaller, gives forth a weaker, shriller note.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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One might add that there are other archetypal instruments, such as the West Country bullroarer known as the humbuz, that deserve to be studied by the student of dialect and folklore as well as by the musicologist.
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Joseph Campbell told me a story also recently recounted by Davidson Loehr about the Australian tribe that used the bullroarer to keep people in awe of the gods.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Another traditional instrument still used in ritual and ceremonial events is the bullroarer, a thin piece of wood suspended from a string and swung in a circle.
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At the end of the ritual one of the masked men dipped the bullroarer in the boy's blood and thrust it in his face, simultaneously removing his mask so the boy could see it's not a god at all - it's just one of the old guys.
A Time for Heresy
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The old men knew they were lying when they maintained that the sound of the bullroarer was the voice of supernatural beings or that initiands were to be swallowed by monsters.
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Their sacred bullroarer is kept with other Tjuringas.
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If they'd tried to use a bullroarer it would have been in a 3' radius, which would certainly have resulted in listener casualties, what with bouncing it off of both pillars and listeners.
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It was some time since any central men's houses had been built there, so it happened that these bachelor quarters also housed men's ritual paraphernalia such as secret gourd instruments, bullroarers, drums, and dance ornaments.
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Voice of Oro," their god of vengeance, is produced by a bullroarer, which is actually worshipped as the god himself.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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J. R. O. Ojo's study of drums and bullroarers, along with the occasional entries on drums and doors in exhibition catalogues and other texts, some of which are mentioned below, are the primary sources for Ogboni bas-relief work.
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Among these are the integration of musical instruments such as bullroarer, pairs of boomerangs, clapping sticks, seed and shell rattles, and didjeridu into rock group lineups.
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Twinkling chaffer/roarers followed behind them, quickly surpassing the pillars as they raced into the starfield.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 15.1 of 31.1
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Now palmwood is chiefly used in the local context to manufacture bows and bullroarers, which are identity-conferring objects of male power.
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Moyle shows clapsticks appearing across the continent, bullroarers, pairs of boomerangs and rattles in specific regions, and the didjeridu in only the top areas of the continent.
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Shaped like a knife, a bullroarer makes a humming noise when it is swung.