3.1 "...indicative of the change from youth to manhood. While the teeth are being knocked out an instrument known as a roarer is swung round so as to produce a loud humming noise. The uninitiated are not allowed to see this instrument. Women are forbidden to witness the ceremonies under pain of death. It is given out that the youths are each met in turn by a mythical being, called Thuremlin (more commonly known as Daramulun) who takes the youth to a distance, kills him, and in some instances cuts him up, after which he restores him to life and knocks out a tooth."Roarer n. flat, oval shaped piece of wood with a double string attached to one end. It is spun over the head by the other end of the string in sacred Aboriginal ceremonies. The sound is a hauntingly beautiful whirring, caused by the wood spinning as air moves across it, and the string twists and untwists.
2. "Non-stop to Coventry, mk1s and an early series 'roarer' AC electric. I would sit in the front coach compartment, dim the lights, open the droplight, open a can and then just watch the sparks - used to fly along and always early into Coventry where, in those days, I had to change due to no Birmingham International."3. primitive ritual musical instrument and means of communicating over extended distances.
