Wisdom The girl who wove bags In a land where mountain cliffs and the sea are brothers and where the trees are slender and tall, there lived a young girl named Lovana, who was shy of people. She loved peace and quiet. Her eyes wer... Australian Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Wisdom Winjarnin Brothers In those days when there were no ants yet, an amazing tribe lived on earth. As soon as the people of this tribe raised their hands, their huge wings opened and they could fly like bats. These people w... Australian Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Wisdom Selfish people There lived one tribe in a region that lay far from the sea. In the forests through which this tribe wandered, there were many kangaroos and koalas, but people were tired of eating game and wanted to ... Australian Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Wisdom How a frog of unprecedented size drank all the water in central Australia It was a very long time ago. My grandfather’s great-great-grandfather had not yet been born. Heat and drought came to the country. And there was no water in any river, pond or stream. People, animals ... Australian Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Wisdom Pleiades and Orion constellation Somehow, seven sister girls who lived in the sky began to play and descended from the blue sky to the high mountains below, on earth. They descended to such mountains, where icy rivers noisily fall in... Australian Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Wisdom Milky Way In those days when Pripriggy lived, there were no roads in the sky. The stars were then very young and bright and were bored alone, because there was no road in the sky along which they could go to vi... Australian Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Wisdom About how the snake became poisonous This happened at a time when many animals were still people. There lived on earth a terrible, poisonous lizard, and his name was Mungoon-Gali. In his mouth he carried a bag of poison, killed people wi... Australian Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Wisdom How did Nimbuwa Rock appear? At first Nimbuva was a rainbow, but he became tired of his lonely life, and he descended to earth and turned into the fish Barramunda. When he was a rainbow, he often looked from his heavenly home at ... Australian Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
