The Bunyip
Faërie: Aboriginal Dreaming Stories | Black Panther | Bunyip | Cook's Australian Fairy Tales | Ida Rentoul Outhwaite bibliography | Faërie in Australia | Peck's Australian Legends | Picnic at Hanging Rock - Faërie Realm | Picnic - Path of Light | Picnic - C3 & C18 | Disappearance @ Hanging Rock | Trees & nature spirits | Contents True? Chronology Videos References ----------------- 1. True or false? Bunyip / Bunjil / Tor-roar .... ... ------------------ 2. Chronology 1818 * Explorer settler Hamilton Hume and surveyor James Meehan discover bones of a creature near Lake Bathurst. Their Aboriginal guides refer to it as the mythical creature the Bunyip. 1845 * The Bun-yip, Geelong Advertiser. Report on the discovery of a skull on the Murrumbidgee River. 1850s * Sighting of a strange creature by a group of settlers. 1956 * Brian James, The Bunyip of Barney's Elbow , Halstead Press, 1956. 2007 *...