Originally published: September 14, 2022

What's grey and feathered and bipedal and a starfish but also an alligator? The Australian bunyip, of course!

Holly and Chelsea reminisce about Chelsea's year as an exchange student in Australia as they unearth historical and contemporary cultural nuggets about the bunyip, a creature from multiple southern Aboriginal cultures' creation traditions. 

Sources:

• The Gloomy Bunyip
• Red Billabong- wiki
• Bunyip wiki
• Meet the Bunyip- all that’s interesting
• Bunyip cryptid wiki
• Steve Irwin Stamps
• Dot and the Kangaroo wiki
• Bunyip, The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd ed. Wilde, William H., Joy Hooton, and Barry Andrews. Oxford UP, 1994. 
• Holden, Robert; Nicholas Holden. (2001). Bunyips: Australia’s folklore of fear. 
• South Australian Institutes Journal, Jan. 18, 1901. 
• Geelong Advertiser, Wed. July 2, 1845.
• “Water spirit beings,” Clarke, Philip A. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists, 2018. 
• Clarke, Philip A. “Indigenous Spirit and Ghost Folklore of “Settled” Australia.” Folklore 118.2 (2007), 141-161. 

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Intro and outro: Underneath the Christmas Tree (Instrumental) by myuu http://www.thedarkpiano.com/ Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/q8fX3In7Qng

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