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	BULLROARER - Online Information article about BULLROARER
		god of vengeance, is produced by a bullroarer, which isactually worshipped as the god himself.
		The sanctity of the bullroarer has been shown to be very widespread.
		Sumatra (where it is used to induce the demons to carry off the soul of a woman, and so drive her mad), the bullroarer is also found.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BRI_BUN/BULLROARER.html (621 words)

	BULLROARER - LoveToKnow Article on BULLROARER
		Though treated as a toy by Europeans, the bullroarer has had the highest mystic significance and sanctity among primitive petple.
		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.
		Thus among the Egba tribe of the Yoruba race the supposed Voice of Oro, their god of vengeance, is produced by a bullroarer, which is actually worshipped as the god himself.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BULLROARER.htm (373 words)

	New Stuff
		The basic bullroarer is a fairly flat piece of wood with a cord attached to one end; it is rapidly spun so that makes a whirring/roaring sound.
		Bullroarers come in many shapes and sizes, but they have been considered powerful tools in dealing with the spirit world by peoples across the world.
		Bullroarer fetishes have been used by many different tribes, but seem to be most common among the Uktena and Wendigo.
	www.bmarch.atfreeweb.com /new_stuff.htm (3617 words)

	Bullroarer - TheBestLinks.com - Aerodynamics, Doppler effect, Hobbits, Sound, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It consists of a longish piece of cord fixed to an oval piece of wood or other suitable material which usually is thicker in the center, and sharpish at the edges.
		This instrument has been used by numerous early and traditional cultures in both the northern and southern hemispheres but in the popular consciousness it is perhaps best known for its use by Australian Aborigines (it is from one of their languages that the name turndun comes).
		Bullroarer is the name of an ancestor of the Took clan of hobbits who was very tall (for a hobbit) and could ride a horse.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bullroarer.html (339 words)

	List of Hobbits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took: (2704–2806) led the defense against the orcs of Mt. Gram led by Golfimbul at the Battle of Greenfields.
		He was known for his exceptionally large stature for a Hobbit (he could ride a horse), although he was later surpassed by his descendant Pippin and his friend Merry Brandybuck.
		She is possibly one of the North-Tooks, decended from Bandobras Took (aka Bullroarer).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bullroarer_Took (2320 words)

	Bullroarer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bullroarer, a song on Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust CD.
		Bullroarer is the nickname of an ancestor of the Took clan of hobbits who was very tall (for a hobbit) and could ride a horse in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
		Bullroarer, a sacred sound device, can be be made with a ruler and string, the more weight the better.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bullroarer (151 words)

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		A bullroarer is a wooden instrument shaped like a laurel leaf or an oval with a slight twist in its shape.
		Bullroarers make a fascinating variety of sounds, depending upon the shape, thickness and density of the woods used.
		The back side of bullroarer is blank and could be used to personalise it or to print corporate logo and text.
	www.giftlog.com /cgi-bin/ustorekeeper.pl?command=goto&file=Bullroarers_and_Clapsticks.html (635 words)

	ContinuumPopMusic.com - Volume Details
		The bullroarer customarily consists of a thin, flat piece of bone, or a slat of wood, which is elliptical in shape and pierced at one end.
		Although the bullroarer is musically limited, for more than a century its social role and its symbolic significance have been the subject of intense study and innumerable scholarly papers (Lang 1884).
		In an exhaustive study of the phenomenon and the literature, folklorist Alan Dundes argues that the pervasive use of the bullroarer is ‘based upon notions of male pregnancy envy, anal eroticism, and ritual homosexuality’ (1976, 236).
	www.continuumpopmusic.com /vol2sam3.asp (461 words)

	Laramie Boomerang Online - Laramie, Wyoming News and Information
		Bullroarers are planks of wood attached to a cord that make a whirring sound when spun.
		As children began twirling their bullroarers, the humming voices of the instruments echoed across the circle of students.
		Ace Hardware sold the supplies for the bullroarers and the PVC pipe for the fifth-graders’ didgeridoos (white-ant-hollowed eucalyptus branches are rare in Albany County) at a discount and cut down all of the supplies for the school.
	www.laramieboomerang.com /news/more.asp?StoryID=104083 (564 words)

	Took Family
		Bandobras was given the nickname "Bullroarer." From him were descended the North-tooks of Long Cleeve, where Peregrin Took's wife Diamond of Long Cleeve came from.
		A bullroarer is a musical instrument made of a small flat slip of wood tied to a string which makes a booming, humming noise when twirled rapidly.
		There is a large collection of bullroarers from around the world at the Pitt Rivers Museum of Anthropology and World Archaeology at Oxford University, where Tolkien was a professor for many years.
	www.tuckborough.net /took.html (2571 words)

	Bull-roarer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is no standard range for the bullroarer as they are typically one of a kind instruments.
		However, changing the velocity of the spin of the bullroarer and the size of the instrument effects the realative pitch.
		The smaller the bullroarer the faster it can be twirled resulting in a higher pitch.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textb/Bull-roarer.html (308 words)

	bathustpoetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is about the Bullroarer: a Kenworth Truck that for 30 years now has ploughed along the great Australian highways carrying God knows what between Australias great cities.
		The legend claims that the Bullroarer made the trip on it's own, driving on the troubled waters between the two nations.
		However strange this Australian legend is, ghostly sightings are reported frequently to the Victoria Transport Dept, as the great Bullroarer barrels down the Hume towards Melbourne with a return shipment.
	home.clear.net.nz /pages/v8racing/Poems/Bullroarer.htm (115 words)

	Australian Aboriginal Musical Instruments - The Didjeridu, The Bullroarer And The Gumleaf
		The instrument itself is by no means unique to Australia, and similar sound generators have been used by populations as diverse as those of ancient Egypt and the Inuit of Northern Canada.
		The aerodynamics of sound generation in the bullroarer has been described in detail elsewhere [6], and only an outline will be given here.
		There is an additional slower pulsation with a period of several seconds that derives from the fact that the slat rotation gradually twists the cord, providing a contrary torque which eventually stops the rotation and re-launches it in the opposite sense.
	www.didjshop.com /austrAboriginalMusicInstruments.htm (2658 words)

	Central Australian Ceremonial Artefacts - auction results 2003
		The bullroarer is clearly old and has a patina commensurate with traditional usage.
		Bullroarers were attached to hair string and swung around the head – the sound would warn off women and uninitiated males prior to some ceremonies.
		This carved bullroarer, with it's string of aboriginal hair was collected 30 years ago in the red centre.
	www.duckdigital.net /FOD/FOD1035.html (3266 words)

	Aboriginal didgeridoos - Australian aboriginal boomerangs, bullroarers, clapsticks - didgeridoo, boomerang, bullroarer ...
		Aboriginal Bullroarers are used to frighten off the enemy.
		The end of the 4 ft long cord is held in the hand and the shaped wooden bullroarer revolves around and above the head in a circular motion causing the bullroarer to make an eerie roaring sound, hence the description 'Bullroarer'.
		Bullroarers are available both plain and painted, in two sizes, large and small.
	www.univenter.com /art-artifacts_aboriginal-artifacts.html (345 words)

	Platexrecords - John Jett ’Bullroarer’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		'Bullroarer' is the recording debut for Australian guitar player John Jett.
		The bullroarer is used to warn people: there's a men-only meeting coming up, not suitable for women and children.
		'Bullroarer' was recorded with local musicians Sieto Kiewiet and Dim Junius.
	www.platexrecords.com /artist-info/info-johnjett.html (226 words)

	Centre Acoustique - LMFA, UMR CNRS 5509 - Aeroacoutics of moving surfaces
		The Bullroarer is an aero-mechanical instrument used by aboriginal tribesmen (Fig.B.1).
		The Bullroarer is the only rotating blade device for which the motion is not prescribed but rather imposed by the instantaneous aerodynamic forces.
		The bullroarer is understood as a test-case for methods coupling CFD and the acoustic analogy.
	acoustique.ec-lyon.fr /tmwork.php (3511 words)

	Australian Museum Collections - Pacific - Papua New Guinea: Collecting - or stealing?
		The expedition members spent most of their time at Kaimare on the Purari River delta, where they were allowed to see the private area of the men's house where sacred objects were stored.
		Hurley and McCulloch were allowed to purchase one bullroarer from each bundle.
		When Hurley and McCulloch were about to return to Australia, the Papuan Administration impounded their collections pending the outcome of an inquiry into a claim that they had used force to acquire items on Lake Murray.
	www.amonline.net.au /collections/pacific/stealing.htm (362 words)

	Amazon.com: Bullroarer: A Sequence (The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize): Books: Ted Genoways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Excerpted from Bullroarer : A Sequence (The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize) by Ted Genoways, Marilyn Hacker.
		From the Foreword: In a language of visceral accuracy made concise and memorable by metric structure, Ted Genoways tells an American story that is also emblematic of a piece of American history-a history of expansion cruelly compressed by the Depression, a history of the movement from rural to urban to suburban life.
		I admired the sweep and expansiveness of Bullroarer, but find myself returning to it for the way that story unfolds in such elegant, utterly American music.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1555535070?v=glance (712 words)

	Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines: A Legend of the Sacred Bullroarer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Bullroarer is a primitive instrument used by the aborigines at initiation and other ceremonies.
		It is a thin oblong section of wood, attached to a length of string through a hole at one end.
		When the women saw their dead children, they were moved by a frantic grief that was heart-rending to behold, and, all through the night, could be heard the sound of their wailing.
	www.sacred-texts.com /aus/mla/mla04.htm (466 words)

	BRAZILIAN AMAZON KAYAMURA INDIAN PAINTED WOOD FISH FORM BULLROARER ! (TRIBALMANIA.COM)
		This impressive bullroarer is carved in the form of a fish and has applied white and fl painted decoration on both sides.
		It was ritually used by men only and women were to remain inside their houses not to see the sacred bullroarer.
		When whirled around on a long cord it makes a loud humming sound, believed to be the sound of creation or the voice of the spirits themselves.
	www.tribalmania.com /AMAZONBULLROARER.htm (126 words)

	http://xft001/classes/notes12.htm
		The "Bullroarer," a noise maker that was a religious symbol in many cultures.
		Interestingly, the first bullroarer in myth comes from the body of a woman.
		The bullroarer is used in initiation rites into manhood that use fecal and fetal symbolism, and so the power of the uterus/vagina is supplanted by the power of the anus.
	www.montana.edu /metz/website/anneke/notes12.htm (901 words)

	The Lord of the Rings Online Community - Character Question
		Now from what I have read about the game so far we are not playing the ordinary human farm boy, or dwarven barber or elvish harpist or hobbit mayor...we are playing a character that is above average, unique, a hero type when compared to others of their kind.
		Actually the assumption is that we ARE playing a hobbit like the Bullroarer because we are playing the "unique" hobbit rather than the average hobbit.
		Now to me I didnt say we are playing the Bullroarer but like the Bullroarer because he was unique among hobbits like frodo, merry, pippin, sam were.
	forums.lotro.turbine.com /showthread.php?t=43588&goto=newpost (1057 words)

	The Right Half of My Brain: June 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		when the bullroarer steps from the rushes, he's wearing some kind of mink or maybe the severed head of a boa constrictor.
		when he's sleepy, the bullroarer sighs, chews some food and just goes to sleep.
		not a one to mess with, our bullroarer eats live barracudas for breakfast, with his bare hands he pulls them out of the tankful that he wheels along behind.
	www.paperclypse.com /mt-archives/right/2005_06.html (681 words)

	Bullroarer - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
		Bullroarer - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
		L.A.Outback in California offers Australian aboriginal bullroarers crafted and painted by Wijikura artists.
		Buy Bullroarer today at Lark in the Morning.
	www.smarter.com /books-1/product/bullroarer-236609 (159 words)

	Port Keats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Expanded views, background information on the artists, and the stories told in the paintings, can be found by clicking on the thumbnail images.
		Mortuary Dance (Sacred Bullroarer Design), Artist Unknown, c.
		Clan Water Holes (Sacred Bullroarer Design) Charlie Rock Ngunbe c.
	www.aboriginal-art.com /art_of_arn_pages/port_keats_thumb.html (157 words)

	Jovian Chronicles Lightning Strike Supplement 2: Call to Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Glad to hear it, Bullroarer," Kara muttered as her Intruder took another glancing hit.
		Over the alarms, a steady tone accompanied the calm, clipped voice from the Bullroarer, which said, "Target link locked.
		Another vulcan burst sheared off most of Kara's fighter's rear hull, but it didn't matter anymore.
	www.dp9.com /Products/DP9-318.htm (317 words)

	Encyclopedia of Arda: Bullroarer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The title given to Bandobras Took, the nearest thing in Hobbit history to a great warrior.
		Tall enough to ride a horse, the Bullroarer was most famous for his rout of the goblins at the Battle of Greenfields.
		Click the link or the Seeing-stone to display the main page and full index.
	www.glyphweb.com /Arda/b/bullroarer.html (70 words)

	Inlakesh: Quantum Dreaming Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Rob Thomas: Didjeridoo, bullroarer, medicine drum, rattles & shakers
		Quantum Dreaming is an earlier release of Inlakesh; dreamscapes spun from the Didjeridoo, Tabla, Bullroarer, Cello & sounds of the Australian bush.
		This project has some excellent solid didjeridoo solos & a couple of nice tribal grooves.
	www.inlakesh.com /quantumnotes.html (46 words)

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