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Yara- Ma- Yha- Who

Yara- Ma- Yha- Who (YA- rah- MA- YAWHO) Australia’s premier vampiric creature, the yarama- yha- who, looks like a short, red- skinned man with an exceptionally large head and mouth and suckers
30 October 2020

Thinan-malkia

Thinan-malkia In Australian mythology, evil spirits who capture victims with nets that entangle their feet. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written by Anthony S. Mercatante & James R. Dow Copyright © 2009 by Anthony S.
14 March 2019

Malingee

Malingee In Australian mythology, the spirit of the night, who during his travels in the dark

Banaidja

Banaidja In Australian mythology, ancestral figure, son of Laindjung. He taught the Arnhem Landers their totems

Darana

Darana In Australian mythology, the rainmaker who causes rain to fall by singing. Once when Darana sang, so much rain fell that the earth was flooded. He placed his throwing stick in
28 July 2018

Colbumatuan-kurrk

Colbumatuan-kurrk In Australian mythology, an evil female spirit who kills people by throwing tree limbs at them. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written by Anthony S. Mercatante
28 July 2018

churinga

churinga (Tjuringa) In Australian mythology, sacred objects of stone or wood in which the spirits of ancestors come to dwell; also, a mnemonic device for storytelling. These churingas are ritually decorated, they
28 July 2018

Buurt-kuuruk

A Buurt-kuuruk is in Australian mythology, an evil spirit in the form of a woman as tall as a gum tree, which can range to 50 feet in five years. SOURCE: Encyclopedia
28 July 2018

Bunyip

An Australian aboriginal drawing of a Bunyip made in 1848. (FPL) The Bunyip, a legendary, elusive, creature, figures in reports that range back in time into the oral folklore of the Aboriginal
28 July 2018

Bunjil

Bunjil In Australian mythology, creator sky god and culture hero. According to one version of the creation myth, Bunjil formed rivers, trees, plants, and hills from the bare land. At first there
28 July 2018

Brewins

Brewins In Australian mythology, invisible evil spirits who cause disease. They can be driven away by a medicine man, who uses foul language against them and sucks the parts of the victim’s
28 July 2018

Bori

Bori In Australian mythology, invisible spirit who kills his victims by injecting them with incurable diseases. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written by Anthony S. Mercatante &
28 July 2018

Boorala

Boorala In Australian mythology, tribal name for a creator god. Those who are good go to Boorala’s home when they die. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written
28 July 2018

Biggarro

Biggarro In Australian mythology, the wombat snake who aids man to the spirit land, the Land of Perfection. He is the opposite of the evil carpet snake, Goonnear. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World
28 July 2018
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