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Molly Tasman Napurrurla Molly Tasman Napurrurla i(A68764 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Warlpiri
(Storyteller) assertion
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1 2 y separately published work icon The Spotted Cat The Spotted Cat : A Dreaming Narrative Belonging to Molly Tasman Napurrurla Molly Tasman Napurrurla , Christine Nicholls (editor), Kingswood : Working Title Press , 2003 Z1016481 2003 single work picture book children's dreaming story (taught in 1 units)

'An evil monster is terrorising the land. The Spotted Cat must act quickly.

But how will he do it when he is so small and the monster is so big.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Pangkarlangu and the Lost Child : A Dreaming Narrative Belonging to Molly Tasman Napurrurla Molly Tasman Napurrurla , Christine Nicholls (editor), Lajamanu Community Education Centre (illustrator), Kingswood : Working Title Press , 2002 Z969653 2002 single work picture book children's Indigenous story (taught in 2 units)

'When a small boy ignores his parents’ advice and follows them out hunting, he meets a huge, wild-eyed, knotty-haired monster known as the Pangkarlangu! ' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Jajirdikirli : The Spotted Cat Molly Tasman Napurrurla , 1994 single work prose dreaming story
— Appears in: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories : Yimikirli : Newly Recorded Sayings from Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia 1994; (p. [1]-21)

'The spotted cat is a culture hero who rescues the inhabitants of a large area from the depradations of a man-eating giant, a feat resembling others in myth, for example George and the dragon, Beowulf and Grendel or Odysseus and the cyclops.'

(Source: Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories, p. 21)
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