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Australian folklore

1 record of Australian folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

YowieCryptid · AustraliaYowie is a modern Australian catch-name for bush hairy-man lore. It overlays older Aboriginal vocabularies — including, in some records, yowie as a dead person's spirit — and settler yahoo reports. Distinct from the bunyip; do not flatten sacred beings into one ape.