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the grey box. The crow at length overtook Dhiel and 

 killed her, as well as her clogs, and broke the enchanted 

 kuddyil to pieces with his club. Dhiel's voice went into 

 all the trees around which she was chased by the crow. At 

 the initiation ceremonies the blackfellows use & munibear, 1 

 or small bullroarer which is manufactured from the wood 

 of any of the trees above mentioned. When the old women 

 at the Burbung ring hear the munibear sounding in the 

 adjacent bush, they say to each other, " That is our kut- 

 thainga or playmate, calling out to us." [Wirraidyuri 

 Tribe.] 



Yandhangga. — Another kind of fabulous being is Yan- 

 dhangga, a small man, with a long beard flowing down to his 

 waist. He has a stone tomahawk naturally formed on his 

 right elbow, with which he kills blackfellows and procures 

 game. On this account he carries everything in the left 

 hand. After killing a man, he skins him and makes a bag 

 out of the pelt for carrying water into the dry sandhills 

 and ridges where he goes hunting. If a blackfellow is 

 walking along and observes Yandhangga, he will probably 

 begin thinking to himself wiiat a queer looking man that 

 is. Yandhangga will then call out to him, " What are you 

 saying about me?" The blackfellow will reply that he 

 said nothing. Thereupon Yandhangga tells the man what 

 his thoughts were, where lie is from, and the names of his 

 relatives. After that he kills and skins him ; but if the 

 man is some distant connection of his own, he allows him 

 to proceed. I was unable to learn whether the blacks 

 ascribed this supernatural knowledge of Yandhangga to his 

 reading the man's thoughts, or whether it was supposed to 

 be due to his omniscience. [Wongaibon Tribe.] 



1 See ray "Burbung of the Wiradthuri Tribes/' in which I have 

 described the munibear and its uses, Journ. Anthrop. Inst., Vol. xxv., p. 

 298, pi. 26, fig. 39 (May 1896). 



