Think of Homer’s Cyclops, the Night-Hag of Renaissance legend or the German Kinderfresser, which snatches and eats its young victims. Warner also observes that mythical, malevolent beings are found the world over. Monsters are made to warn, to threaten, and to instruct, but they are by no means always monstrous in the negative sense of the term they have always had a seductive side. The trope of metamorphosis is evident in the real-life stories and media representations in Australia’s dominant culture: consider the image of the kindly old gentleman next door or the devoted, caring parish priest who shocks everyone by metamorphosing into child-molesters, creepy, predatory, though ever-charming.Īs the celebrated British mythographer and cultural historian Marina Warner has noted: Often, akin to many of the Monstrous Beings that inhabit Aboriginal Australia, these evil supernatural entities are Tricksters, shape-changers and shape-shifters. In the Tanakh, ‘The Adversary’, as a figure in the Hebrew Bible is sometimes described in English translation, fulfils a similar role. In the Christian tradition, we need to look no further than Satan. Monstrous beings are allegorical in nature, personifying evil. The existence of such Evil Beings is an unremarkable phenomenon, given that most religious and mythological traditions possess their own demons and supernatural entities. Certain sorcerers gleefully dismember their victims limb by limb, and there are other monstrous entities as well, living parallel lives to the human beings residing in the same places. There are also murderous, humanoid fish-maidens who live in deep waterholes and rockholes, biding their time to rise up, grab and drown unsuspecting human children or adults who stray close to the water’s edge. There are lustful old men who, wishing to satiate their unbridled sexual appetites, relentlessly pursue beautiful nubile young girls through the night sky and on land – and other monstrous beings, too.Īrnhem Land, in Australia’s north, is the abode of malevolent shades and vampire-like Wind and Shooting Star Spirit Beings. In the Australian Central and Western Deserts there are roaming Ogres, Bogeymen and Bogey women, Cannibal Babies, Giant Baby-Guzzlers, Sorcerers, and spinifex and feather-slippered Spirit Beings able to dispatch victims with a single fatal garrote. The specific form that their wickedness takes depends to a considerable extent on their location. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.A rich inventory of monstrous figures exists throughout Aboriginal Australia. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue.
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