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    The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances. It...
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  • A bullroarer is a ritual sound instrument and an ancient communication device used for communicating over greatly extended distances. Bullroarer may also...
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  • acquisitive cousins to Bilbo. They are, further, snobbish and bourgeois. Bullroarer Took, a historical figure mentioned as the Old Took's great grand-uncle...
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  • some critics felt they reinforced the "primitive" stereotype. Use of the bullroarer was criticised as belonging to sacred rituals, and therefore not appropriate...
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  • Additionally, pierced phalanges (usually interpreted as "phalangeal whistles"), bullroarers, and rasps have also been discovered. The latter musical finds date back...
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  • Rincewind idly twirls the bullroarer, which soon begins to fly faster and farther than it should. Rincewind lets go and the bullroarer flies off; immediately...
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    birimbau bodhrán bombard bouzouki & Irish bouzouki brommtopp bukkehorn bullroarer cajón catá cavaquinho chajchas charango çifteli cimbalom çığırtma claves...
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    call seen in the opening credits of hit television series Skippy. The bullroarer (or bull roarer) is an instrument used in ceremonial ritual. It consists...
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    altered state caused by drug use), but an "invocation of spirit" with the bullroarer and communal dancing to drum and pipe. The trances are described in familiar...
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  • cooked and ate them. His hunger sated, he lay down to sleep again and a bullroarer emerged from under his armpit. It took on human form and grew into a young...
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