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{{Publication|Author="Charles De | {{Publication | ||
|Author="Charles De Booshttps://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/de-boos-charles-edward-3385" | |||
|Author Gender=Male | |||
|Nationality=Australian | |||
|Publication Title=The Sydney Morning Herald | |||
|Date=1861/12/06 | |||
|Form=Serialised fiction | |||
|Genre=Gothic | |||
|Genre 2=Children's story | |||
|Genre 3=Mystery | |||
|Extract Regime=Gold | |||
|Extractive Stage=Exploration | |||
|Extractive Stage 2=Discovery | |||
|Labour=Race | |||
|Colonies represented=New South Wales | |||
|Colony Pub.=New South Wales | |||
|Location=Sydney | |||
|Web Link=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13054978 | |||
|Notes=This story features supernatural forms of gold-digging. Dick, the hero of the story who squanders his inheritance, encounters a supernatural entity, the Yo-Yo; an Indigenous man. Yo-yo proves his supernatural power by guiding Dick's extraction of gold, eventually securing a compact with Dick. Yoyo grants Dick immense wealth in exchange for an unspecified future demand. A year later, the Yo-Yo returns to claim a child, but Dick, aided by a priest, confronts and defeats the Yo-Yo, using the religious power of Christianity (the priest claims that the child belongs to God) | |||
|Chapters Continued=[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13065647 Chapter 2] | |||
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13067498/1484167 Chapter 3] | |||
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13067486/1484167 Chapter 4] | |||
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13068412 Chapter 5] | |||
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13057671 Chapter 6] | |||
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13057670/1484281 Chapter 7] | |||
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13057040 Chapter 8] | |||
[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13223829 Chapter 9] | |||
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This story features supernatural forms of gold-digging. Dick, the hero of the story who squanders his inheritance, encounters a supernatural entity, the Yo-Yo; an Indigenous man. Yo-yo proves his supernatural power by guiding Dick's extraction of gold, eventually securing a compact with Dick. Yoyo grants Dick immense wealth in exchange for an unspecified future demand. A year later, the Yo-Yo returns to claim a child, but Dick, aided by a priest, confronts and defeats the Yo-Yo, using the religious power of Christianity (the priest claims that the child belongs to God)
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Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
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