Editing Demon (section)

=== Aboriginal Australian cultures ===
[[File:Bunyip 1890.jpg|thumb|upright|A depiction of a [[Bunyip]].]]
[[Aboriginal Australian]] cultures have various beings translated into English as "demons" or "devils". The most notable is the [[Bunyip]], which was originally a term applied to malevolent spirits in general.<ref>See for example, "[[Oodgeroo Noonuccal]]", Kath Walker's story collected in ''Stradbroke Dreamtime''. [http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/bunyips/html-site/abor-stories/biami.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206012750/http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/bunyips/html-site/abor-stories/biami.html|date=6 February 2012}}</ref> [[Aboriginal Tasmanians|Tasmanian]] mythology in particular has many beings translated as "devils"; these include malicious spirits like ''Rageowrapper''<ref>Plomley, N. J. B. (1991). The Westlake papers: records of interviews in Tasmania by Ernest Westlake. Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery.</ref> as well as spirits summoned in magic. Tasmanian Aboriginal people would describe these entities as "devils" and related that these spiritual beings as walking alongside Aboriginal people "carrying a torch but could not be seen".<ref>Plomley, N. J. B., ed. (2008) [First published 1966]. Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson (2nd ed.). Hobart, Tasmania and Launceston, Tasmania: Quintus and Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. ISBN 978-0-977-55722-6.</ref>