This companion gathers bush legends, urban myths, convict tales, Indigenous narratives, rituals, sayings. It moves from Dreaming stories through colonial superstition to contemporary myth-making, showing how belief mutates alongside settlement, violence, landscape, and isolation.

Published in 1993 by Oxford University Press, it sits at that moment where folklore studies were shifting from quaint preservation to something closer to cultural analysis. 

Dense, referential, occasionally strange in its breadth. Less for cover-to-cover reading, more for opening at random and falling into a pocket of the country’s subconscious.

Hardcover, Oxford University Press (1993). Good condition—some wear to dust jacket, interior clean and solid.