Australian folklore information

Australian folklore refers to the folklore and urban legends that have evolved in Australia from Aboriginal Australian myths to colonial and contemporary...

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This is a list of giants and giantesses from mythology and folklore; it does not include giants from modern fantasy fiction or role-playing games (for...

The drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala. This imaginary...

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as tales,...

The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore (ISBN 0195530578) is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press, its first...

environment. Australia portal Australian Aboriginal mythology Australian folklore Culture of Australia Dreamtime "Australian folklore". australia.gov.au. 2008-02-25...

Records in 2018. Her next three studio albums under Republic—Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), and Evermore (2020)—all debuted atop the Billboard 200. Lover was...

Yowie is one of several names for an Australian folklore entity that is reputed to live in the Outback. The creature has its roots in Aboriginal oral...

(2001). Bunyips: Australia's folklore of fear. National Library of Australia. ISBN 0-642-10732-7.[permanent dead link] South Australian Institute (18 January...

Australian frontier (known as the bush or the outback) similarly inspired the types of tall tales that are found in American folklore. The Australian...

Animals in folklore may refer to: Animals in Australian folklore Animals in Russian folklore Animals in Thai folklore Animals in Japanese folklore This disambiguation...

niches. The goanna features prominently in Aboriginal mythology and Australian folklore. Being predatory lizards, goannas are often quite large, or at least...

tanifa A. Asbjørn Jøn, 'The Road and the Taniwha' in Australian Folklore: A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies 22 (2007), pp.85-94 (p.85). ISBN 1-86389-831-X...

Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during...

During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been...

He was one of the first Australian born explorers. William Wentworth – Also born on the island, First native born Australian to receive recognition internationally...

In common mathematical parlance, a mathematical result is called folklore if it is an unpublished result with no clear originator, but which is well-circulated...

sightings of phantom cats in Australia include the Gippsland phantom cat and the Blue Mountains panther. Australian folklore holds that some feral cats...

Chamberlain (11 June 1980, Mount Isa – 17 August 1980) was a nine-week-old Australian baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980 during...

A water spirit is a kind of supernatural being found in the folklore of many cultures: Some water spirits in traditional African religion include: Mami...

vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and...

(also known as "Terowie Bob") is part of South Australian Railways folklore. He travelled the South Australian Railways system in the latter part of the 19th...

1968 Liberal Party leadership election. Holt's death has entered Australian folklore, and was commemorated by, among other things, the Harold Holt Memorial...