Kurpany is a monstrous dog-like evil spirit of the Uluru Tjukurpa, central to the Mala narrative of the rock's northern and western sides. The Mala, the rufous hare-wallaby people, had come from the north and begun their own inma (ceremony), raising the pole Ngaltawata, and so declined an invitation to attend the ceremony of the Wintalka men to the west. Enraged by the slight, those men sang into being Kurpany, a huge and terrible devil-dog, and sent it from Kikingkura to destroy the Mala rite. The kingfisher woman Luunpa saw the creature approaching and cried out a warning, but Kurpany fell upon the camp, killed a number of Mala men, and drove the survivors in fear and confusion to the south, toward what is now South Australia. Its tracks are impressed in the rock leading away from Uluru. Kurpany stands as an embodiment of malevolent sorcery and of the deadly consequences of breaking the obligations of ceremony.