Words for Category: Belief

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Tyerrang-tyerrang

Stone against evil spirits

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

yemurraki

Dreamtime, the distant past

*yirri larr

oath stone, or charm