folklore, australian aborigine

A collection of twenty traditional tales from the Australian Aborigines, explaining how the world began and what followed.

A battle to the death between two enemy tribes in the Dreamtime leads to the appearance of the bats known as flying foxes and subsequently to the rise of all kinds of birds.

Recounts the aborigine story of creation featuring Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent.

The kidnapping of a young female black duck by Goomai the water rat gives rise to the platypus tribe.