gwaibillah

Updated: May 1, 2025

And when the wives died, they were taken up to the sky, where they are now known as Gwaibillah, the red star, so called from its bright red colour, owing, the legend says, to the red marks left by the stakes on the bodies of the two women, and which nothing could efface. Deereeree was a widow and lived in a camp alone with her four little girls.

K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker - Australian Legendary Tales: folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies