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Words for Category: Belief
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Tyerrang-tyerrang
Stone against evil spirits
Yemurraki
Dreamtime, the distant past, Dreamtime legend
kirrk
sky, heaven
kirrkundity
God 'from heaven'
kunikaluk
hell i.e. 'belonging to down below'
*kurre-wil
star: Sirius
lety-lety
mythical, spotted and dog-like animal
mirndayi
mythical maned snake, dreamtime snake,
*murrpən wilu
curlew stone
murrup
ghost
ngatha
name of a mythical being, a small creature that lived in reed-beds.
nyanyimən
omen, bad omen presaging the death of a close relative, what's up?, what's wrong?,
*punggandity
spirit
tanggel
bunyip, mythical water-creature
thandəl
poison
*tyali-wutyup
soul
wurrətyil
magic fire
*yirri larr
oath stone, or charm