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The Coranderrk blacks say that there is one man (Kooleen) under the ground (Beek) who has a long tail. He has a great many wives and many children. He is a very bad man, and always laughs at the blacks because they have no tails. The Yarra blacks believe also that when the kidney-fat is taken away by sorcery, and a person dies, the spirit goes to. The body will rise again if the deceased has drunk water belonging to Menyan (the Moon), but if the person has drunk water belonging to Mongabarra, (the Pigeon), the body will not rise again.

The doctors or priests say that the sea was created by. The sea—Bullarto warreen—has waters different from those that flow in the creeks and rivers, and very different from those that descend from the sky. Woo-too-no, Woo-too-no, Woo-too-no Per-reen Ngervein—many long ages past was very angry with the blacks. was very angry with all black people, because they had done evil and wicked things; and Bulgo-Lou-er-ner many days on the earth, and all the black people were drowned, except such as  favored, and these were caught up by him and fixed in the sky as stars. One Koolin and one Baggarook—one man and one woman—who had climbed a high tree on a mountain, escaped the flood which had made, and they lived; and all the people now existing are descended from these two.

The Aborigines of Lake Tyers say that at one time there was no water anywhere on the face of the earth. All the waters were contained in the body of a huge Frog, and men and women could get none of it. A council was held, and