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|Author=[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/de-boos-charles-edward-3385 Charles De Boos]
|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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