THE CONCORDANCE
waterhole
2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.
Oceania & the Pacific · 2
BunyipA being of Australian Aboriginal traditions and later settler retellings, associated with waterholes, swamps, and dangers at the water’s edge. Specific meanings belong to specific nations.MasalaiMasalai is a Tok Pisin category for place-bound bush and water spirits across Papua New Guinea — local owners of pools, cliffs, bends, and groves — not one creature, and not interchangeable with ancestral ghosts or tambaran.
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