Bunyips – Bunyips, an Aboriginal mythological creature
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Ned Collie has kidnapped a Drover and a Judge. Your wizard is powerless to stop him since he has fabricated armor for himself made of ground up dispel charms and trucks.
Judge Veg has a solution. You need to pick some Warrigal Greens and you need to fight some Bunyips. Bunyip eyes shoot poison and their drool melts steel. Bunyip Drool will help defeat Ned’s armor.
The bunyip is a creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. The origin of the word bunyip has been traced to the Wemba-Wemba or Wergaia language of the Aboriginal people of Victoria, in South-Eastern Australia.
Print published in the Illustrated Australian News. 10/1/1890
The word bunyip is usually translated by Aboriginal Australians today as “devil” or “evil spirit”. This contemporary translation may not accurately represent the role of the bunyip in pre-contact Aboriginal mythology or its possible origins before written accounts were made.
The bunyip has been described as amphibious, almost entirely aquatic (there are no reports of the creature being sighted on land), inhabiting lakes, rivers, swamps, lagoons, billabongs, creeks, waterholes, sometimes “particular waterholes in the riverbeds”.
Physical descriptions of bunyips vary widely. George French Angus may have collected a description of a bunyip in his account of a “water spirit” from the Moorundi people of the Murray River before 1847, stating it is “much dreaded by them … It inhabits the Murray; but … they have some difficulty describing it. Its most usual form … is said to be that of an enormous starfish.” The Challicum bunyip, an outline image of a bunyip carved by Aboriginal people into the bank of Fiery Creek, near Ararat, Victoria, was first recorded by The Australasian newspaper in 1851. According to the report, the bunyip had been speared after killing an Aboriginal man. Antiquarian Reynell Johns claimed that until the mid-1850s, Aboriginal people made a “habit of visiting the place annually and retracing the outlines of the figure [of the bunyip] which is about 11 paces long and 4 paces in extreme breadth”. The outline image no longer exists. Robert Brough Smyth’s Aborigines of Victoria (1878) devoted ten pages to the bunyip, but concluded “in truth little is known among the blacks respecting its form, covering or habits; they appear to have been in such dread of it as to have been unable to take note of its characteristics”. Eugénie Louise McNeil recalled from her childhood memory in the 1890s that the bunyip supposedly had a snout like an owl (“a Mopoke”), and was probably a nocturnal creature by her estimation.
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