A brace of baleful billious bellowing Bunyips
Hello again, I have been thinking about Australian folkloric creatures a lot recently, partly in order to try and generate ideas for an upcoming project and partly just because it is a passion of mine. Foremost of Australian fabulous beasts is the Bunyip, which has a varied and storied history going back to before colonization. It began as a creature which the white colonists believed to simply be a large undiscovered animal, a misconception further fueled by both fossil bones and those of livestock, as well as a whole slew of Aboriginal water-bogey myths that have been perhaps needlessly synonomized with the colonial version. The local variant in Indigenous lore here among Adelaide's Kaurna people, as far out as the Ngarrindjeri nation of the Murray-river is the Moolyewonk, a rather typical humanoid water bogey which has been variously described as an ugly hairy merman, a web-footed yowie-like creature, or as being half man and half fish. Murray Bridge's village green has a m...