The Black swan is the official bird emblem of Western Australia and is featured on its flag. It has significant cultural meanings to Indigenous Australian people from the southeast to the southwest regions of Australia
“An Aboriginal man, fishing in a lagoon, caught a baby bunyip. Instead of returning the baby to the water, he wanted to take the bunyip back to the camp to boast of his fishing prowess, against the urging of his friends. Before he could do anything, the angry mother bunyip rose from the water, flooding swirling water around them, and took back her baby. As the water receded, the men found that they had been changed into black swans. As punishment for the fisherman's vanity, they never regained their human form, but could be heard at night talking in human voices as a reminder to their human relatives of the perils of pride and arrogance”. Wikipedia - Hurley, P.J., In Search of Australia, Dymocks Book Arcade Ltd., Sydney 1943: 131B
“An Aboriginal man, fishing in a lagoon, caught a baby bunyip. Instead of returning the baby to the water, he wanted to take the bunyip back to the camp to boast of his fishing prowess, against the urging of his friends. Before he could do anything, the angry mother bunyip rose from the water, flooding swirling water around them, and took back her baby. As the water receded, the men found that they had been changed into black swans. As punishment for the fisherman's vanity, they never regained their human form, but could be heard at night talking in human voices as a reminder to their human relatives of the perils of pride and arrogance”. Wikipedia - Hurley, P.J., In Search of Australia, Dymocks Book Arcade Ltd., Sydney 1943: 131B
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