This is another Ngiyaampaa story and it\u2019s about Eaglehawk and Crow.<\/p>\n
Long, long time ago Eaglehawk, it was his turn to go hunting. So Eaglehawk had a little baby, and he asked Crow, he went over to his neighbour Crow and asked Crow if he\u2019d look after his baby while he went hunting, because food was getting much scarcer now and they had to go much further and further away from the camp.<\/p>\n
So Eaglehawk, he went to Crow and asked him. Crow didn\u2019t want to look after the baby, he said \u201cNo, no I don\u2019t want to look after the baby, he\u2019s crying too much, he\u2019ll cry all the time and disturb the camp\u201d. But Eaglehawk said, \u201cNo, he\u2019ll be right, Crow\u201d. He said, \u201cYou take him away and you sit down there and talk to him, or sing to him and he\u2019ll quieten down\u201d. Crow was still reluctant to take the baby, he said, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t want to look after the kid\u201d.<\/p>\n
So anyway, Eaglehawk just handed the baby to Crow and said, \u201cOkay, when we come back, whatever meat we get we\u2019ll bring it back and we\u2019ll share it with you\u201d. Crow had to be satisfied with that and Eaglehawk just went off with his young men and of course they had to go a long, long way from the camp.<\/p>\n
But Crow, after he got the baby, he took it into his gunyah, his hut, and he sat down there with the baby and he was singing to it and talking to it, but the baby wouldn\u2019t stop crying. Just kept on crying and crying and crying.<\/p>\n
So Crow was getting really annoyed, no way he could stop the baby. So Crow went out and he got his boondie-his hitting stick-and banged the little fella with the hitting stick and killed him. Then he got the baby and he put it up the back of his camp, right in the back of the gunyah. He put all the leaves around it, and a bit of bark and a kangaroo skin. He had a kangaroo skin, a cloak, so he put that over the baby. And anyway, everything was quiet then so Crow went away from his camp and started doing what he wanted to do then.<\/p>\n
So after, when Eaglehawk came back late in the afternoon, Crow ran back into the camp and he was sitting at the doorway and he was making out he was singing to the baby. Crow\u2019s sitting there and Eaglehawk came up to him and said \u201cI\u2019ve come to pick my baby up now Crow. He\u2019s very quiet, you must have sung him to sleep.<\/p>\n
And Crow said, \u201cYeah, he\u2019s right in the back of the gunyah there, he\u2019s right in the back of the camp. He\u2019s sound asleep. Don\u2019t wake him, leave him there. Eaglehawk said, \u201cNo, I\u2019ll take him home now and look after him\u201d.<\/p>\n
So when Eaglehawk walked into the camp, the gunyah, to get his baby, he noticed that everything was really still and too still around him. So once Eaglehawk walked into the back of the camp and picked the baby up, Crow took off and he ran out and hid in the mallee, the thick scrub.<\/p>\n
So Eaglehawk he started yelling, \u201cMy baby, Crow killed my baby\u201d, so all his other hunters came up to him with their spears and he said, \u201cGo after him. Chase him into the thick mallee and get him. We\u2019ll kill him\u201d. So they ran after Crow, but he got right into the centre of the mallee and they couldn\u2019t find him. So Eaglehawk said, \u201cWe\u2019ll set a light to the mallee and we\u2019ll burn him out. He\u2019s got to be punished for what he did to my baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
So they set a light to the mallee, and they went right back, away from the fire and they\u2019re sitting right out there, waiting for all the smoke to go away. And then they saw this bird flying out of the smoke, at the end of the smoke this black bird came out. And Eaglehawk said, \u201cThat\u2019s him. That\u2019s Crow. He\u2019s been punished now, his spirit turned into a black bird.\u201d<\/p>\n
And today, Eaglehawk and Crow still carry on the fight after that. They\u2019re birds today and they still carry on the fight. Crow will still go up to Eaglehawk\u2019s nest and try to pick at his babies, the eyes of his babies. And in the air when Eaglehawk\u2019s circling for food, Crow will go after him again and try to pick at him. So they still carry on the fight after what happened when they were people years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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