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The '''Yowie''' is an [[Australia]]n cryptid analogous to the Himalayan Yeti and the North American [[Bigfoot]]. During the early colonial era, Australian [[Aborigines]] often warned British settlers to beware of huge, ape-like creatures that lurked in the rugged mountains and deep forests of the island continent. Their people, they said, had been encountering the hairy horrors since time immemorial. They knew them by many names, including doolagarl, thoolagarl, jurrawarra and tjangara. The Yowie is said to have been the evolutionary counterpart of a dementor, and is as such capable of evading capture. 

The '''Yowie''' is an imagined mysterious human-like creature that features in [[Australia|australian]] folklore; it is analogous to the Himalayan Yeti and the North American [[Bigfoot]]. [[File:Yowie.jpg|thumb|250px]]

 

 

In the early 19th century [[Aborigines]] often warned British settlers to beware of huge, ape-like creatures that lurked in the rugged mountains and deep forests of the island continent. Their people, they said, had been encountering the hairy horrors since time immemorial. They knew them by many names, including doolagarl, thoolagarl, jurrawarra and tjangara.  

   

   

Soon the colonists, too, began to experience hair-raising encounters with the elusive, foul-smelling giants, which they referred to as “Australian apes”, “Metapedia” or “youries”. Today, they are generally referred to as yowies. The list of modern-day eyewitnesses includes zoologists, rangers, surveyors and members of the elite Special Air Service Regiment.

Soon the colonists, too, began to report hair-raising encounters with the elusive, foul-smelling giants, which they referred to as “Australian apes”, “Metapedia” or “youries”. Today, they are generally referred to as yowies.  

 

* Tony Healy et al. ''The Yowie: In Search of Australia's Bigfoot'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Yowie-Search-Australias-Bigfoot/dp/1933665165/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254130252&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]

[[Category:Mythical Beasts]]

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