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Usage examples of "witchetty".
I had used a thorn to dig some witchetty grubs from holes in the trunk of a tree.
I collected some fine fat witchetty grubs, all bigger than my thumb, cooked them lightly, and took them to Yuma.
I had much success that day, returning with a bandicoot, witchetty grubs, two snakes, some honey, a bag of tubers, and some nourishing seeds to chew.
I had chosen the best of the meat for our meal tonight, and now I laid some fine big witchetty grubs on top of the ashes so that we would have something especially tasty to begin with.
When we sat pondering what meat we could afford, he announced that he would send Mitji out with her spear to bring back some juicy kangaroo steaks, together with some fat witchetty grubs for dessert.
They were camped in a certain swale of acacia trees, he said, scratching for witchetty grubs and irriakura bulbs, the only available food in this dry season.
There were witchetty grubs, fat and white and loathsome, wood lice and slugs, huge centipedes and spiders.
They found holes in a moist and rotten log into which, as is the habit of witchetty grubs, they crept.
Then growing hungry he searched for witchetty grubs, for he knew that the log was a favourite place for them.
Thus one band would consist of frog people only, another of witchetty grub people only, another of Hakea flower people only, and so on.
Similarly, to take a few more examples, in a ceremony of the witchetty grub totem of the Arunta tribe the body of the actor was decorated with lines of white and red down, and he had a shield adorned with a number of concentric circles of down.
In another ceremony of the witchetty grub totem, which followed immediately the one I have just described, the actor had two shields beside him.
In acting thus he was supposed to represent a celebrated ancestor of the witchetty grub totem.