Yowie refers to a number of items: a Yowie is a rare cultivar of the marijuana plant, also known as the Maui-Wowy. a Yowie is an Australian mythical animal Yowie is a math rock band from St. Louis Other related archivesAustralian, St. Louis, Yowie, marijuana, math rock, mythical animal

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From the mythology surrounding the Australian Yowies a line of toys and children's products have arisen. Invented by Bryce Courtenay and Geoff Piker, they were similar to Kinder Surprises in that they are basically a chocolate shell around a plastic capsule, with a toy inside. Unlike Kinder Surprises, the toy is usually an Australian or New Zealand animal, with a leaflet with educational facts and a picture of the animal. There have been several series of Yowie toys. The first were just animals, with limited edition Yowie pencil toppe ...

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Yowie cryptid, Yowie cryptid - Yowie toys

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It is a marijuana plant. Smoke this. It is soooooooo good. Actually, don't. It will kill you. Never do drugs kids, never do drugs. PLease please don't do drugs ok? Sometimes, drugs can help you if you are about to die. If you are really sick with cancer and you are not living a happy life, they will give you a marijuana lollypop. It will make you enjoy the last couple weeks of your life. Other related archives

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The yeti, also known as the abominable snowman, is a supposed large primate-like creature reported to live in the Himalayas. The Western name is derived from the Tibetan yeh-teh (transliterated: gYa' dred), "little man-like animal"; it is a false cognate with Old English geottan (or yettin in Modern English), an antiquated word for an orc or troll (see also jotun). Most mainstream scientists and experts consider current evidence of the yeti's existence to be unpersuasive, and the result of hoaxes, legend ...

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• Yeti - History
• Yeti - Analyses
• Yeti - The yeti in popular culture

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The bunyip ("devil" or "spirit") is a mythical creature from Australian Aboriginal mythology. Bunyip - Characteristics. Descriptions of bunyips vary wildly. Common features in Aboriginal drawings include a horse-like tail, flippers, and walrus-like tusks. According to legend, they are said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. At night their blood-curdling cries can be heard as they devour any animal or human that ventures near their abodes. Their favourite prey is human women. T ...

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• Bunyip - Characteristics
• Bunyip - Reality or myth?
• Bunyip - Explanations
• Bunyip - Bunyips in popular culture
• Bunyip - Alternate meanings

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Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is described as a large, bipedal apelike creature living in the remote wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, specifically those in southwestern Canada, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, the forests of the U.S. Northeast, and the U.S. Southern states. The majority of mainstream scientists reject the posibility of the creature's existence, and consider the stories of Bigfoot to be a combination of myth and hoax. Bigfoot - Description. < ...

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• Bigfoot - Description
• Bigfoot - Bigfoot phenomenon
• Bigfoot - Etymology
• Bigfoot - Bigfoot
• Bigfoot - Sasquatch
• Bigfoot - Evidence - arguments for and against
• Bigfoot - Eyewitness reports
• Bigfoot - Problems with eyewitness reports
• Bigfoot - Native American culture
• Bigfoot - Problems with Native American culture as evidence
• Bigfoot - Physical evidence
• Bigfoot - Problems with physical evidence
• Bigfoot - Audio and visual evidence
• Bigfoot - Problems with audio and visual evidence
• Bigfoot - Psychological explanations
• Bigfoot - Hoaxes
• Bigfoot - Arguments against the hoax explanation
• Bigfoot - Conclusion
• Bigfoot - Mainstream response
• Bigfoot - Proposed creatures
• Bigfoot - Gigantopithecus
• Bigfoot - Paranthropus
• Bigfoot - Meganthropus
• Bigfoot - Alternative theories
• Bigfoot - Formal studies of Bigfoot
• Bigfoot - Bigfoot in popular culture
• Bigfoot - Alleged Bigfoot sightings
• Bigfoot - Footnotes
• Bigfoot - Sources

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The indigenous peoples of Australia can be classified into hundreds of language groups and clans. For this reason it is incorrect to classify any attribute as universal to them as a whole. However, almost all the belief systems found seem to be what can be considered a polytheistic, animistic religion. The following are individual religious stories from a plethora of cultures across the continent. Where possible, the ...

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Cryptozoology is the study of rumored animals that are presumed (at least by the researcher) to exist, but for which conclusive proof does not exist, or for animals which are generally considered extinct, but are occasionally reported. Those who study or search for such animals are called cryptozoologists, while the hypothetical creatures involved are referred to by some as "cryptids", a term coined by John Wall in 1983. Invention of the term (adding the Greek prefix kryptós, or "hidden" to zoology to mean ...

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• Cryptozoology - Justifications for cryptozoology
• Cryptozoology - Criticism of cryptozoology
• Cryptozoology - Notable cryptids
• Cryptozoology - Primates and hominids
• Cryptozoology - Bipedal monsters
• Cryptozoology - Carnivorous mammals
• Cryptozoology - Herbivorous mammals
• Cryptozoology - Sea and lake monsters
• Cryptozoology - Reptiles
• Cryptozoology - Birds
• Cryptozoology - Marsupials
• Cryptozoology - Amphibians
• Cryptozoology - Others
• Cryptozoology - General terms for cryptids
• Cryptozoology - Bodies of water in which water monsters are said to live
• Cryptozoology - Lists of cryptids
• Cryptozoology - Sources

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Australian folklore refers to the folklore and urban legends of Australia. Australian folklore - Australian Aboriginal mythology. Bunyip - According to legend, they are said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. Rainbow serpent - It is the sometimes unpredictable Rainbow Serpent, who vies with the ever-reliable Sun, that replenishes the stores of water, forming gullies and deep channels as he slithered across the landscape, allowing for the collection ...

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• Australian folklore - Australian Aboriginal mythology
• Australian folklore - Animals/creatures
• Australian folklore - People
• Australian folklore - Places
• Australian folklore - Socio-political events
• Australian folklore - Sport
• Australian folklore - Other

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The Indigenous Australians are the first inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands, continuing their presence during European settlement. The term includes the various indigenous peoples commonly known as Aborigines, whose traditional lands extend throughout mainland Australia, Tasmania and numerous offshore islands, and also the Torres Strait Islanders whose lands are centred on the Torres Strait Islands which run between northernmost Australia and the island of New Guinea. Indigenous ...

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• Indigenous Australians - Origins
• Indigenous Australians - Before European settlement
• Indigenous Australians - Impact of European settlement
• Indigenous Australians - Adaptation
• Indigenous Australians - The path to reconciliation: 1950-2005
• Indigenous Australians - Issues facing Indigenous Australians today
• Indigenous Australians - Health
• Indigenous Australians - Education
• Indigenous Australians - Crime
• Indigenous Australians - Unemployment
• Indigenous Australians - Substance abuse
• Indigenous Australians - Mainland Australia
• Indigenous Australians - Clans groups and communities
• Indigenous Australians - Culture
• Indigenous Australians - Mythology
• Indigenous Australians - Languages
• Indigenous Australians - Music
• Indigenous Australians - Art
• Indigenous Australians - Traditional recreation
• Indigenous Australians - Tiwi Islands & Groote Eylandt
• Indigenous Australians - Tasmania
• Indigenous Australians - Torres Strait Islanders
• Indigenous Australians - Population
• Indigenous Australians - Prominent Indigenous Australians

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Windigo

Huge mysterious, human-=like creature, allegedly living in the forests of Quebec. According to Indian legends, the creature "goes naked in the bush and eats Indians, and makes a sinister hissing noise, often accompanied by fearful howls, to strike terror into the hearts of everyone who hears it. "

See Mysterious Primates, Abominable Snowman, Almas, Yowie, Chemosit, Chuchunaa, Higabon, Maricoxi, Yeti, Meh-teh,  Nguoi Rung, Orang Pendek, Bigfoot and Sasquatch

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The Speewah is an imaginary land and its' boundaries have never been defined, however the Speewah can be anywhere that the storyteller wants it to be and tales have it situated anywhere from Cape York to the Otways, from Brisbane to Broome. Or in otherwords it could be anywhere in Australia. Its' location is kept ambiguous and when questioned people from different regions of Australia will give a different answer. 'The men from the Darling Ranges said it was back o'Bourke and the men of Bourke said it was out West and the men of the West pointed to Queensland and in Queensland they told you ...

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Speewah, Speewah - Flaura and Fauna, Speewah - Location, Speewah - Famous Inhabitants, Speewah - International Similarities

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Many cryptozoologists, after careful examinations of eye-witness reports and statistical evidence, have concluded that yeti reports are misidentification of mundane creatures. Well-financed expeditions have failed to turn up any positive evidence of its existence, although a sample of hair retrieved from one expedition was reportedly confirmed as belonging to an unknown ape. Enthusiasts speculate that these reported creatures could be present-day specimens of the extinct giant ape Gigantopithecus, as the only evidence (other th ...

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Yeti, Yeti - History, Yeti - Analyses, Yeti - The yeti in popular culture

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With the many yeti reports in the 1950s, the creature crossed over into popular culture. Mel Blanc lent his talent to voicing a bumbling, lovelorn Abominable Snowman on a few Warner Brothers cartoons from the era. The British film "The Abominable Snowman" appeared in 1957, starring Forest Tucker and Peter Cushing; Fred Johnson played the yeti. The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who featured a robotic Yeti in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear and i ...

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Yeti, Yeti - History, Yeti - Analyses, Yeti - The yeti in popular culture

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For hundreds of years, natives in the Himalays have been telling stories about a humanoid monster that wanders around the mountain range. However, occasional reports of an ape-like creature in the Himalayas only began filtering to the west in the 1800s, mainly by British explorers [1]. In 1832, Journal of the Asiatic society of Bengal published the account of B. H. Hodgson, who wrote that while trekking in northern Nepal, his native guides spotted a tall, bipedal creature covered with long dark hair, then fled in fear. Hodgson did not see the creature, bu ...

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Yeti, Yeti - History, Yeti - Analyses, Yeti - The yeti in popular culture

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During the early settlement of Australia, the notion that the bunyip was an actual unknown animal that awaited discovery became common. Early European settlers, unfamiliar with the sights and sounds of the island continent's peculiar fauna, regarded the bunyip as one more strange Australian animal, and sometimes attributed unfamiliar calls or cries to it. At one point, the discovery of a strange skull in an isolated area associated with these 'bunyip calls' seemed to provide p ...

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Bunyip, Bunyip - Characteristics, Bunyip - Reality or myth?, Bunyip - Explanations, Bunyip - Bunyips in popular culture, Bunyip - Alternate meanings

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With the many yeti reports in the 1950s, the creature crossed over into popular culture. Mel Blanc lent his talent to voicing a bumbling, lovelorn Abominable Snowman on a few Warner Bros. cartoons from the era. The British film "The Abominable Snowman" appeared in 1957, starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing; Fred Johnson played the yeti. The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who featured a robotic Yeti in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear and i ...

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Yeti, Yeti - History, Yeti - Analyses, Yeti - The yeti in popular culture

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Along with the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti (Abominable Snowman), Bigfoot is one of the more famous creatures in cryptozoology. While most Bigfoot encounters took place in the Pacific Northwest, similar encounters have been reported throughout North America. The phenomenon began in 1958 when enormous footprints were reported in Humboldt County, California. Many supporters of the creature's existence claim there had been accounts of large, hairy, apelike or "wild man" creatures (or reports of inexplicably large, human-like footprints) from ...

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Bigfoot, Bigfoot - Description, Bigfoot - Bigfoot phenomenon, Bigfoot - Etymology, Bigfoot - Bigfoot, Bigfoot - Sasquatch, Bigfoot - Evidence - arguments for and against, Bigfoot - Eyewitness reports, Bigfoot - Problems with eyewitness reports, Bigfoot - Native American culture, Bigfoot - Problems with Native American culture as evidence, Bigfoot - Physical evidence, Bigfoot - Problems with physical evidence, Bigfoot - Audio and visual evidence, Bigfoot - Problems with audio and visual evidence, Bigfoot - Psychological explanations, Bigfoot - Hoaxes, Bigfoot - Arguments against the hoax explanation, Bigfoot - Conclusion, Bigfoot - Mainstream response, Bigfoot - Proposed creatures, Bigfoot - Gigantopithecus, Bigfoot - Paranthropus, Bigfoot - Meganthropus, Bigfoot - Alternative theories, Bigfoot - Formal studies of Bigfoot, Bigfoot - Bigfoot in popular culture, Bigfoot - Alleged Bigfoot sightings, Bigfoot - Footnotes, Bigfoot - Sources

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Bigfoot - Eyewitness reports. Some cryptozoologists have argued that the most persuasive circumstantial evidence for Bigfoot's existence is the high number (possibly thousands) of credible eyewitness reports from individuals, who claim to have clearly seen creatures that they describe as large, bipedal and apelike. See List of Notable Bigfoot Sightings or Reports. The majority of Sasquatch reports are generated from areas having low human population densities. In addition, most sightings are near rivers, c ...

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Bigfoot, Bigfoot - Description, Bigfoot - Bigfoot phenomenon, Bigfoot - Etymology, Bigfoot - Bigfoot, Bigfoot - Sasquatch, Bigfoot - Evidence - arguments for and against, Bigfoot - Eyewitness reports, Bigfoot - Problems with eyewitness reports, Bigfoot - Native American culture, Bigfoot - Problems with Native American culture as evidence, Bigfoot - Physical evidence, Bigfoot - Problems with physical evidence, Bigfoot - Audio and visual evidence, Bigfoot - Problems with audio and visual evidence, Bigfoot - Psychological explanations, Bigfoot - Hoaxes, Bigfoot - Arguments against the hoax explanation, Bigfoot - Conclusion, Bigfoot - Mainstream response, Bigfoot - Proposed creatures, Bigfoot - Gigantopithecus, Bigfoot - Paranthropus, Bigfoot - Meganthropus, Bigfoot - Alternative theories, Bigfoot - Formal studies of Bigfoot, Bigfoot - Bigfoot in popular culture, Bigfoot - Alleged Bigfoot sightings, Bigfoot - Footnotes, Bigfoot - Sources

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