Moodai (Mullyan’s mother-in-law)

Role: mother-in-law · First appears: Tale 16 · Mullyangah The Morning Star

Life events

• A fire trapped Mullyan, both Moodai, and Buttergah in the tree home, where they died.(Tale 16 · Mullyangah The Morning Star · 📍 yaraan tree)
  • With: Mullyan (Tale 16) Moodai (Mullyan’s wife) Buttergah
  • “As they turned to descend the tree, the roof of the humpy fell on them. And all that remained when the fire ceased, were the charred bones of the dwellers in the yaraan tree.”

Tale 16 · Mullyangah The Morning Star

• with Mullyan (Tale 16) (She is identified as Mullyan’s mother-in-law.) “There he lived apart from his tribe, with Moodai the opossum, his wife, and Moodai the opossum, his mother-in-law.”

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Extracted from the original text of Australian Legendary Tales. Made with Rho MD.