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Section: cryptids Tag: water spirits

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Taniwha

Taniwha are powerful supernatural beings in Māori tradition associated with seas, rivers, lakes, springs, caves, and dangerous places. Some are destructive and predatory, others are protective kaitiaki. They are not one single monster but a wide and living class of culturally specific beings.

Cryptids / Entities Aquatic And Lake Monsters/cryptid/2026-03-24

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The Bunyip

The bunyip is one of Australia’s most important folkloric beings: a swamp-dwelling, roaring, shape-shifting water monster whose meanings changed dramatically as Aboriginal water-spirit traditions were filtered through colonial science, newspaper sensation, and later national mythmaking.

Cryptids / Entities Aquatic And Lake Monsters/cryptid/2026-03-23

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