Karakarook is the fire-woman of Kulin tradition. In the account William Thomas recorded from the Melbourne people and Robert Brough Smyth printed in 1878, Kar-ak-ar-ook was the only being who could make fire, which she guarded on the end of her yam stick; Waung the crow buried snakes in an ant hill and invited her to dig for ants' eggs, and when she struck the snakes with her stick the fire fell out and the crow seized it. She was afterwards placed in the heavens, where she shines as the seven stars, the Pleiades. In the Wurundjeri telling the figure is plural: the Karatgurk, seven sisters each carrying a live coal on her digging stick, who cooked the murnong yams they dug and whose glowing fire sticks became the Pleiades after Crow's theft. Howitt also records that Karakarook gave the first women their digging sticks, making her the founder of women's craft as Bunjil is of men's.