Kuyuruwayn

Threlkeld writes: ‘The name of another imaginary Being. Whose trill in the bush frequently alarms the blacks at night. When he overtakes a native, he commands him to exchange cudgels, giving his own which is extremely large, and desiring the black to take the first blow at his head, which he holds down for that purpose, after which he smites and kills the person with one blow, skewers him with the cudgel, carries him off, roasts and then eats him!”