[The Euahlayi Tribe by K. Langloh Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Euahlayi Tribe CHAPTER XVI 1/15
BUSH BOGIES AND FINIS Weeweemul is a big spirit that flies in the air; he takes the bodies of dead people away and eats them.
That is why the dead are so closely watched before burial. Gwaibooyanbooyan is the hairless red devil of the scrubs, who kills and eats any one he meets, unless they are quick enough to get away before he sees them, as one woman of this tribe is said to have done on the Eurahbah ridge.
It would really seem as if there were a debbil debbil on that ridge; every boundary rider who lives there takes to drink.
I think the red spirit must be rum. Marahgoo are man-shaped devils, to be recognised by the white swansdown cap they wear, and the red rugs they carry.
Red is a great devil's colour amongst blacks some will never wear it on that account. These Marahgoo always have with them a mysterious drink, which they offer to any one they meet.
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