Tiddalik the Thirsty Frog — Oceania & Pacific (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Gunaikurnai Country in southeastern Australia, where Tiddalik wakes with a thirst so great that he drinks every pool, creek, and river. The animals cannot push the water out or persuade him to share it, so they gather beneath the gum trees and try something unexpected: they try to make the great frog laugh.
Source & tradition: Gunaikurnai tradition of Gippsland, Victoria. Museums Victoria's Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre identifies the version it shares as belonging to the Gunnai Kurnai people and notes that related Tiddalik stories are told in several parts of…
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