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Overview
Two kurreahs seize Birrahgnooloo and Cunnunbeillee while they bathe at Coorigel Spring. They swallow the women and enter an underground channel to the Narran, carrying the water with them. As they travel, river holes dry behind them. Byamee recognises the empty spring and follows by shortcuts between the deep holes.
He intercepts and wounds both beings near the river’s end. Their lashing tails hollow out ground that fills with the water they have brought. After killing them, he extracts the women and places their slime-covered bodies on red-ant nests; they revive. The narrator connects the hollows with Narran Lake’s later flooding and warns against bathing in deep kurreah-haunted holes. The passage describes tails and swallowing but supplies no fixed modern species anatomy.
Origins & earliest records
K. Langloh Parker, Australian Legendary Tales (London: David Nutt, 1896), The Origin of the Narran Lake, pp. 11–14.
Records & interpretation
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Australian Legendary Tales: The Origin of the Narran Lake, pp. 11–14
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- Primary collected textParker 1896: The Origin of the Narran LakeResearch access: 2026-10-05
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