Aboriginal Australian Supernatural Beings

25 documented Aboriginal Australian supernatural beings from the Evil Eye grimoire, including 8 lesser and 6 ancient in power tier.

Adnoartina
Ancient

Adnoartina

Adnoartina is a Dreamtime ancestral lizard-being in Dieri tradition associated with the creation of red ochre (yamparnu) and the formation/sanctification of landscape features such as Uluru. The being’s actions in ancestral time explain the origin of sacred pigment and sustain ritual practices and social journeys to ochre sources.

Akenta
Minor Spirit

Akenta

Akenta is attested in the provided sources only as a proper name appearing in several unrelated contexts (a listing of South Australian groups, commercial wine branding, a health company, and a parliamentary text). The sources do not describe Akenta as a supernatural being, and no mythic attributes, appearance, powers, or rituals are recorded.

Anjea
Ancient

Anjea

Anjea is an Australian Aboriginal fertility spirit described as the custodian of human souls between incarnations who fashions new human bodies from earth and returns them to mothers. She is attested in secondary sources summarizing Aboriginal mythology as a figure linking death, the interval between lives, and rebirth.

Arkaroo
Primordial

Arkaroo

Arkaroo is a primordial ancestral serpent of the Dreaming associated with the northern Flinders Ranges (Ikara/Wilpena Pound) in South Australia. In local creation narratives it drank the waters of Lake Frome, carved valleys by reclining in the mountains, and left waterholes where it rested; the being is commemorated in place-names and rock art at sites such as Arkaroo Rock.

Baiame
Ancient

Baiame

Baiame is a principal creator/ancestral Sky Father in the Dreaming traditions of several south‑eastern Australian Aboriginal peoples. He is credited with shaping landscape, instituting law and ceremony (notably the first bora initiation), and returning to the sky while remaining present in sacred sites and rock art.

Barraiya
Ancient

Barraiya

Barraiya is named in a single recorded account as a god in Australian Aboriginal mythology who fashioned the first vagina with a spear so that the being Eingana could give birth. The attestation presents Barraiya in a creator role connected to the origin of human birth.

Blue Mountains panther
Lesser

Blue Mountains panther

A reported large feline/phantom cat alleged to inhabit the Blue Mountains region west of Sydney, Australia. Treated in local belief and contemporary folklore as an outsized cat—often described as panther-sized—sustained by repeated eyewitness reports, occasional physical traces, and periodic investigations rather than by scientific confirmation.

Bunyip
Lesser

Bunyip

A class of Aboriginal Australian water-being from southeastern Australia associated with swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds and waterholes. Bunyip stories warn people away from dangerous waters and in some traditions enforce resource-use norms and child safety.

Buttons (pantomime)
Lesser

Buttons (pantomime)

Buttons is a stock theatrical character in British and Australian Cinderella pantomimes, typically a male household servant who helps Cinderella, expresses affection for her, and provides comic and emotional engagement with the audience. The role is conventional to stage pantomime practice rather than a supernatural being.

Cleone
Minor Spirit

Cleone

Cleone is attested in the provided sources primarily as a feminine given name, a literary character/title (notably Robert Dodsley's 1758 tragedy), a subject of poetry (Henry Kendall), and a California place name. The supplied materials do not provide evidence of Cleone functioning as a folkloric supernatural being; a Wikipedia disambiguation line mentions a mythological Naiad named Cleone but no supporting primary or descriptive sources are present in the provided set.

Daramulum
Greater

Daramulum

Daramulum is a southeastern Australian Aboriginal sky-hero and ancestral figure associated with the major creator Baiame and with an emu-wife. He is embedded in rock‑art, sky knowledge (constellation identification), and initiation ritual practice, notably as a presence voiced through the bullroarer.

Gwion Gwion
Minor Spirit

Gwion Gwion

A regional tradition/style of painted anthropomorphic rock art from the north‑west Kimberley region of Western Australia, characterized by finely rendered human figures with ornamentation. The tradition (also known by local names such as Kiro Kiro/Giro Giro) is archaeologically significant and the subject of debate over age and authorship.

Mimi (Mimi spirits)
Minor Spirit

Mimi (Mimi spirits)

Mimi are noted in the supplied source material only as a 'fairy-like' being appearing in a single-line entry for Northern Australian Aboriginal folklore. No further descriptive or functional information about Mimi is present in the provided dataset.

Mimi spirits
Lesser

Mimi spirits

Mimi (Mimih) are extremely thin, elongated ancestral spirit-beings of Arnhem Land whose presence is embedded in regional rock‑art and Dreaming traditions. They are associated with rock crevices and rock‑shelters and are treated in some sources as spirit-figures tied to ancestral custodianship of painted sites.

Muldjewangk
Lesser

Muldjewangk

A water-creature of Ngarrindjeri tradition associated with the Murray River and Lake Alexandrina. Described variously as merfolk-like or a gargantuan monster, Muldjewangk figures appear in stories that warn of river dangers, wreck fishing gear, and in at least one account attack a steamboat.

Ngardi (Ngarti)
Minor Spirit

Ngardi (Ngarti)

Ngardi (also spelled Ngarti) is an Aboriginal Australian ethnolinguistic group of the Northern Territory and Western Australia, identified as traditional owners of extensive territory west of the Tanami Track and participants in land-claim and modern legal/economic agreements. Scholarly sources treat Ngardi as a people and language group rather than a supernatural being.

Rainbow Serpent (Dreamtime) — Yurlunggur / Ngalyod
Primordial

Rainbow Serpent (Dreamtime) — Yurlunggur / Ngalyod

A central creator-being in many Australian Aboriginal cosmologies, the Rainbow Serpent is a widespread Dreamtime motif associated with the shaping of land, the generation of living diversity, and regulatory or disciplinary power that can cause chaos when transgressed. Its identity, names, and attributes vary among different Aboriginal language groups and traditions.

Rainbow Serpent (Wagyl / Wagylu)
Primordial

Rainbow Serpent (Wagyl / Wagylu)

Ancestral, creative being central to many Aboriginal Australian cosmologies, the Rainbow Serpent is associated with the shaping of landscape, control of water and fertility, and the regulation of social and natural order. Known by numerous local names and described with regional variation, it is often linked to permanent waterholes and to rainbows as signs of its movement.

The Dreaming
Primordial

The Dreaming

A foundational religio-cultural worldview in Australian Aboriginal traditions designating an 'Everywhen' in which ancestral figures inhabited, created, and continue to give meaning to land, life, law and social identity. It is expressed locally under many indigenous terms and is best understood as an ongoing cosmological order rather than a single anthropomorphic being.

Tiddalik the Frog
Ancient

Tiddalik the Frog

Tiddalik is a giant frog figure from Australian Aboriginal Dreaming (Dreamtime) narratives whose waking thirst causes him to drink all local fresh water; other animals make him laugh and so release the water, restoring rivers and lakes. The story functions as an etiological Dreaming tale explaining drought and the distribution of water and teaches communal response to crisis.

Wandjina
Ancient

Wandjina

The Wandjina (also Wanjina, Wondjina; sometimes listed as Gulingi) are ancestral cloud-and-rain spirit-beings of the Wanjina Wunggurr cultural bloc in northwestern Australia. They are depicted prominently in Kimberley rock art, some paintings of which date to approximately 4,000 years ago, and are integrated in a local cosmology that includes the creator-being Wunngurr (analogous to the Rainbow Serpent).

Wanjina Wunggurr (unverified)
Lesser

Wanjina Wunggurr (unverified)

Insufficient sourced information available in the provided material to describe Wanjina Wunggurr. The only confirmed fact from the source is that the Worrorra (Worora) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region; no reliable details about Wanjina Wunggurr are present in the supplied source.

Wunambal
Minor Spirit

Wunambal

Wunambal (also Unambal, Wunambal Gaambera, Uunguu) is an Aboriginal Australian people, language, and name for country in the northern Kimberley of Western Australia. The term in the available sources refers to the ethnonym, language, and landholders rather than a discrete supernatural being; their cosmology forms part of the wider Wanjina Wunggurr cultural bloc in which creator spirits such as the Wanjina and Wunggurr (including Wandjina imagery) are central.

Yara‑ma‑yha‑who
Lesser

Yara‑ma‑yha‑who

A small, red, frog‑like predatory being from southeastern Australian Aboriginal storytelling used chiefly as a cautionary figure. It ambushes living humans from fig trees by day, drains blood with sucker‑ended hands and feet, swallows and later regurgitates victims who become shorter and take on a reddish tint; repeated attacks purportedly transform victims into more Yara‑ma‑yha‑who.

Yowie
Lesser

Yowie

Yowie is an Australian folkloric entity—recorded in some Aboriginal lexical records as a nocturnally roaming spirit and in colonial and modern accounts as a large, bipedal, hairy creature. The figure appears across eastern Australian traditions under many regional names and has been reinterpreted in settler literature and modern cryptozoology.