Bunyip

The Bunyip is a legendary animal to live in the rivers, water holes and marshes of Australian Aboriginal stories.

Description

The appearance of the Bunyips varies considerably in the different traditions. Is it described in some representations as large snake with a beard and mane, describe the nature of other Aborigines as a semi- human animal with thick fur and a long neck with a bird head. Legend has it that Bunyips can lurk in every waterhole and wait for unwary animals or people to this to pull in her wet resting place and to devour them there. The fearsome roar of Bunyips want to hear especially at night.

Myth and Reality

Although the cryptozoology busy with the Bunyip, keep most of the Australian Bunyip for a pure mythical creature from Aboriginal mythology. A theory of cryptozoologists states, however, that it might be in the awful Bunyip also an extinct bag Species, the Diprotodon act, which took place before his disappearance input into the mythology and there to an evil spirit that lurks under the protection of the water, reinterpreted been.