#Australian mythical creatures

[stinkybrowndogs]

A juvenile frilled dragon protects his meal from scavengers

Inprnt

[puzzled-pegasus]

Cerberus but it's 3 of my dogs

Left to right their names are Hank, Tinker, and Jolene. Obv they don't look like monsters in real life lol.

[cryptic-64]

The Min Min Lights

The story of the Min Min lights comes from Indigenous Australian culture, first recorded near the now-abandoned Queensland town of Min Min.

A Min Min light is described to be a medium circular ball of fuzzy light, like a swarming ball of buzzing bees, usually white but sometimes reported to be green, yellow, red, and even blue.

These mysterious balls of light like to move and almost dance around somewhat erratically, up, down, left, right, backwards, forwards, even at odd angles. They have even been reported to split into two, equally as big, identical lights!

They are known to bob around erratically, and when you approach them they begin to retreat before eventually disappearing into the outback.

Now this is actually a personal encounter my grandfather had on his property with, what he believed to be, a Min Min light.

My grandfather lived on a massive property in a small outback town in western Australia, and it was surrounded by two massive 7ft fences, so there was an exterior fence and an interior, which was to protect the livestock from things like dingoes, foxes, snakes, lizards and wild dogs. And for extra protection, late every evening my grandfather and one his workmen would walk along these fences and place traps for rabbits and any other animal they may catch by the fence.

So they would collect their traps and grab a little oil lantern each, and the workman would walk the inner fence and my grandfather would walk the exterior fence, gradually placing traps along the way.

They would stop, put down the lantern, set the trap, pick up the lantern and keep walking, repeating the process every couple of metres. They would always keep in line, side by side a few metres apart, through the fence, but it was always so dark they could only keep track of each other's position by the small dingy little oil lantern they carried.

So this one evening they are doing their usual routine, stopping, putting down the trap and then picking up and moving on. They do this over and over again, occasionally looking over to make sure they are keeping up, but they had done it so many times now that they hardly had to check in to keep pace anymore. So my grandfather had placed a few traps on his own and looked up to confirm the workman’s lantern position only to find his lantern was 5 or so metres ahead.

The workman must have gone on without him.

My grandfather grabs his things and tries to hurry to catch up, he looks down to watch his steps so he doesn’t trip over a branch or rabbit hole, and when he looks back up he sees the workman’s lantern has moved another 5 metres or so away.

My grandfather is utterly confused but quickly stops to set the trap before wordlessly continuing to try and keep up with his workman.

However this time, he watches as the glowing orb of the lantern suddenly leaps into the air before landing on the ground, 5 metres away. My grandfather stopped in absolute shock.

Had the workman just thrown his lantern?

But if he did, why didn’t it smash and set the whole area on fire?

Once again the light leaps into the air, landing another 5 metres away.

Now my grandfather was sure that the workman wasn’t able to lay his traps in that time so he tries to walk over and approach the fence and the workman, but before he can reach the fence, the orb suddenly leaps completely over the 7ft fence to his side, again, 5 metres in front of him.

This makes my grandfather freeze in place. What was going on?

All of a sudden the voice of the workman calls my grandfather, “Oi why are you going so far ahead? I can’t keep up!” His voice called from behind my grandfather.

My grandfather quickly spun around to see the workman was indeed about 15 metres behind him, with his lantern in his hand.

In that moment he realised the light he was following was not the workman’s lantern, and when he looked back it was completely gone.

It wasn’t until years later when he learned the story of the Min Min lights from local elders, who believed these were the spirits of mischievous aboriginal entities appearing to trick the white people into getting lost in the outback, did he realise what he encountered. Although some also believe they may appear to guide people lost in the outback, home again.

[briefbestiary]

A strange diurnal creature, draining blood before swallowing its prey whole. It at least releases you alive, but try not to get caught more than once.

[thealiviajane]

Felt like doing my interpretation of the oozlum bird and it turns out that I drew it as dumb looking pheasant, kinda funny lol

Why yes this is the bird that flew into its ass LMFAO

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[puzzled-pegasus]

Cerberus but its 3 of my own dogs

I don't always do watercolor, but when I do, it's the most random ideas ever :)

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[nicholasandriani]

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