hi

[lowie03]

hey every1 lowie here have recently became very intereseted in the search for yowies after going camping with the family an sum friends.my mate is aboriginal an his mother came along to one night we were talking about the elders of my mates mums tribe.an yowies came up sum of the stories she was telling was mind blowing she really does think yowies exist among us deep in the bush.well she swears black an blue they do so an very interested to find out more maybe join in on a hunt for one cheers lowie

[Dion]

Hey there Lowie03

Is it possible to recite those story's that the aboriginals told I be very interested. Its always good to hear of the aboriginal side of things.

BTW welcome to the forums

[lowie03]

yes for sure i will ask for permission thou. she really didnt like speaking about this stuff. an not many aboriginals do say much about this topic. from what i gathered they were very scared of the yowies

[Dion]

Thanks Lowie03

[Rusty2]

Hey guy's , hope i'm not interupting ?
An aboriginal friend of mine told me how his mum used to threaten the kids to being locked out of the house with the " Goonge "
(aboriginal ghost) and the " Dooligah " (yowie) but the interesting part was he also mentioned " Brown Jack " , a hominid of about 4 to 5 feet tall . Have you ever heard of these creature's before Dion ?

Rusty2............

[Dion]

Hey Rusty

Yeah I’ve have heard the term before but not often it’s just a reference or another name for the little guys the Junjudee.

http://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.ph ... Itemid=132

Another good read on the subject of Aboriginal legend is from the book "Out of the shadows", by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper. This book is also available in our merchandise section of the Web Site. Here's a small sample of what Paul and Tony have to say on the matter: "It seems that Aboriginal belief in the hairy men extends from the Cape York right down the east coast to Victoria and occurs in at least some parts of South Australia and western Australia. It seems, however, that Aboriginal belief in the hairy men extends from Cape York right down the east coast to Victoria and occurs in at least some parts of South Australia and Western Australia. It seems the ape-man tradition was and is strongest in the mountainous, forested areas of the east coast, from southeast Queensland to nor eastern Victoria. While that notion of modern sighting reports and while it seems logical in terms of food supply and habitat it could of course merely reflect the fact that most of our own research has been conducted in that region. Hairy man traditions collected from tribal aborigines by interested Europeans in the colonial days appeared to be fairly consistent. According to most of those early accounts, the creatures were believe to be the same height as a man or somewhat taller. In the 1840s a white settler was told by Port Phillip Aborigines that the yowie was a tall as a 'big one gum tree', and in the folk tales of the Yalanji people of Cape York, Turramulli, the giant quinkin, towered above the trees. The yowies were also said to be more powerfully built than men; the legs and arms were long and the hands were equipped with sharp claws. The neck was said to be almost non-existent, so that as with the creature Mr. Guines shot, the head seemed to be set right onto the shoulders. They were often said to be mountain dwelling, nocturnal man-eating and capable of climbing trees. Frightful screams and growls and an overpowering stench were sometimes mentioned. Although they were often said to be mortally afraid of yowies, there are several accounts of Aborigines besting them in the fight or even killing them. Harry Williams, an old Ngunnawal man, told of seeing a large group of warriors kill one on a hillside below the junction of the Yass and Murrumbidgee rivers near the present site of Burrinjuck Dam, in about 1840. They dragged it down the hill by the ankles. He described it as'... like a blackman but covered all over with grey hair. One thing the blacks occasionally said about the feet gives a bizarre twist, so to speak, to the whole picture: some Aborigines stated that the creatures' feet were turned backwards so that their tracks confused anyone attempting to follow. Readers familiar with the yeti legend will remember that sherpas often say the same thing about the abominable snowman's feet. Although much of the Aboriginal hairy man tradition recorded in the colonial days and more recently tends to support the modern image of the yowie as a hairy giant, the subject is complicated slightly by the fact that many Aboriginal people also believe in very small hair-covered, man-like creatures. These entities, variously known as winambuu, waaki, junjadee, nambunj or 'brown jacks' appear to fill more or less the same niche in Aboriginal Australia as leprechauns, fairies and elves did in Europe: they have supernatural powers, guard certain places, punish wrong-dowers and protect the sick and lost children." - Out of the Shadows (Get the book!).

The above quote was taken from the link below

http://www.yowiehunters.com.au/index.ph ... &Itemid=39

[Rusty2]

That's interesting Dion , I also heard of a recent report in this area of a mountain bike rider coming across 1 (brown jack) out the back here .
It'll be interesting to hear what Lowie03 comes up with , regarding aboriginal beliefs .

Cheer's Rusty2.................