Yo-Yo. A Legend of the Lachlan District, The

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Form Serialised fiction Genre Gothic Extract Regime Gold Extractive Stage Exploration Labour Race Infrastructure [[:Category:|]] Colonies represented New South Wales Colony Pub New South Wales Location Sydney GPS	Author "Charles De Boos https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/de-boos-charles-edward-3385" Author Gender Male Date 06/12/1861 Publication The Sydney Morning Herald

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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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