At last they say: 'Come and try if your nails are long and strong enough.

See who can best tear this bark off with them.' They all try, and if all are equally good, the old Euloowayi say: 'You are right.

How do you feel ?' 'Strong,' they answer.
They are kept on the tree about a month, then taken into the bush to hunt human beings, to deceive whom they take new forms at times.

A couple of blacks may be hunting--one will be after honey, another after opossums.

The one after opossums will go to a tree, see an opossum, chop into the tree, seize the opossum by the tail as usual.