Bunyip

The Bunyip is a kangaroo-type animal that haunts Australian swamps and causes nocturnal terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity.

Mike Gellman: Mystery Meat Mike Gellman 2010

The Bunyip is a kangaroo-type animal that haunts Australian swamps and causes nocturnal terror by eating people or animals in their vicinity.

Mike Gellman: Mystery Meat Mike Gellman 2010

I'm familiar with the word Bunyip as being the first name of that fine upstanding young koala Bunyip Bluegum in Norman Lindsay's "The Magic Pudding", a copy of which I used to possess as a child, and probably still have somewhere.

languagehat.com: BUNYIP. 2004

The Bunyip is the native river devil, or kelpie, evidently the crocodile of the Northern Australian rivers, whose recognition by the Southern natives in their legends shows, if nothing else did, that the centre of dispersion in Australia was from the North, as Doctor Laing told us years ago.

The Lost Child Henry Kingsley 1853

"Bunyip," which can be sown safely a month later than was the case with any variety previously.

Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

And the Black gins 'eyes grew wider and wider, and they made strange noises and exclamations, as they listened to the story of how the "Bunyip" had led the huntsmen to that dreadful place.

Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889

"Bunyip," he whispered, "big bunyip debble -- debble -- eat all a man up.

Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea George Manville Fenn 1870

Bunyip means “devil” or “spirit” in Aboriginal legend.

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European settlers reported the Bunyip throughout the 1800s and considered it an unknown species.

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The last documented sighting of a Bunyip was in 1895.

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