The bunyip is a creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds and waterholes.
Illustration of a bunyip by J. Macfarlane (1890)
Bunyip (1935), by Gerald Markham Lewis, from the National Library of Australia digital collections, demonstrates the variety in descriptions of the legendary creature.
An 1882 illustration of an Aboriginal man telling the story of the bunyip to two white children
The purported bunyip skull
The Yowie is one of several names for an Australian folklore entity that is reputed to live in the Outback. The creature has origins in Aboriginal oral history.
Bunyip
…P. A. Yeomans, inventor of the Bunyip Slipper Imp, a plough for developing watersheds Yowie, or Wowee, a "BigFoot" style of creature that has its origins in Australian Aboriginal mythology Tim the Yowie Man (22 November 2013). "Tim the Yowie…
Yowie statue Kilcoy Queensland
Yaroma swallowing a man (1907 drawing)
The "Bombala Anthropoid", seen by Charles Harper in southeast Australia in 1912. This fanciful drawing is based on his description in an interview in the Sidney Sun: "A huge man-like animal stood erect not 20 yards from the fire, growling, grimacing, and thumping his breast with his huge hand-like paws."