Oceania · Aquatic
Bunyip
also called Kianpraty
An amphibious beast of Australian billabongs and swamps.
The Account
Aboriginal peoples across the continent describe a booming voice from the water at night and a creature that drags in the unwary. Colonial reports vary — dog-face, seal-body, tusks, feathers — as though nobody who saw it lived long enough to agree.
Origin
Aboriginal Australian traditions
First Sighting
Pre-colonial
From the Public Record
The bunyip is a creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds and waterholes.
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