They are said only to point these poison-sticks at law-breakers, and even then only against persons in a strange country.
Their own land is down Brewarrina way, but there they make no punitive expeditions, travelling up the Narran and elsewhere for that purpose.
The Euloowayi, or long-nailed devils, are spirits which live where the sun sets.

Just as the afterglow dies in the sky, they come out victim-hunting.

These Euloowayi demand a tribute of young black men from the camp, to recoup their own ranks.
When this tribute has to be paid, the old men get some ten or so young ones, and march them off to a Minggah at about ten or fifteen miles from the camp.

There they make them climb into the Ming-ah, to sit there all day.

They must not move, not even so much as wink an eyelid.
At night time they are allowed to come down, and are given some meat, which they must eat raw.
The old men from the camp go back leaving their victims with the Euloowayi, who keep the boys up the tree for some days, bringing them raw meat at night.