The Yowie in Aboriginal Myths and Legends
Including Descriptions/Dot and Cave Art of the Hairy Man and it's Footprints
Including the Sounds the Yowie is known to make, as well as Places they frewquent and live including Migratory patterns.

Aboriginal legends Hairy Man (Yowie) And Larger Man-beasts

Europeans had been reporting sightings of 'hairy men' in the Jamieson, and the adjoining Cedar valley since the 19th century, while Aboriginal traditions indicate the region was inhabited by the Yowies for untold thousands of years before then.

Indeed, local tribesmen venearted the 'Ruined Castle', a prominent Jamieson Valley rock formation as a sacred 'Yowie Dreaming' site, believing the creatures often slept in the surrounding rock overhangs and caves of the 'Castle' area.

To the Aboriginals, particularly the mountain tribes, the mere mention of the word (Yowie) was enough to inspire fear, causing scared looks and frightened exclamations, so convinced were they of the creature's existence...

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Aboriginal Names for the Hairy Man (Yowie)

As I have said, there was more than one hominid form
with which the 'hairy man' became
confused in ancient Aboriginal tradition.
I propose to deal with each one separately.

The most common 'hairy man' was undoubtedly that which existed throughout the eastern Australia mountain ranges (although I have found they also occurred elsewhere in Australia in ancient times). They were known by many names depending upon the numerous dialects spoken by the Aboriginal people, but all translated to the same meaning-'hairy man'.

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Aboriginal Cave Art of the Hairy man

Many Images found throughout Australia depict sometimes Monsterous beings from the Dreamtime to more recent times. Including many found by Rex Gilroy over the years in his search for the elusive and mostly secretive hairy man (Yowie).

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Aboriginal Rock Carvings of the Hairy man

The below link is to many carved footprints of the great hairy man (the Yowie) not far from Sydney. These were shown to Greg Foster by David Pepper from Taronga Zoo in Sydney and a Marine Biologist friend of his in 2001 after visiting the Gosford Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

They include two large carvings of a possible confrontation betwen an Aboriginal and a giant Hairy man. The Giant hairy man depicted on this rock shoal is over 300cm's (10 feet tall) the smaller figure possibly an Aboriginal warrior is considerably smaller although it's claimed it is a smaller Yowie female. Also on this shoal is approx. 25 large carved footprints of the Hairy man.

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The Sounds of the Yowie
Aboriginal and European Descriptions

According to the Aborigines, the sounds emitted by these 'hairy people' varies from grunts to howling.

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Aboriginal Drawings

They wandered the remoter forest regions of the eastern mountains ranges, often in small family groups, sometimes in pairs or singularly, sleeping in caves, rock overhangs or in open forest depending upon weather conditions.

They were known to make fire, manufacture crude stone and wooden tools and killing animals for food, as well as feeding upon nuts, roots and berries. They were to be territorial by nature, regarding any place in which they were temporarily in occupation of as if their own, chasing out any rival groups of their own kind, and also any Aborigines who chanced to wander into their territory.

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