Minh Pinch (the Saltwater Crocodile Ancestor)

Minh Pinch is the saltwater-crocodile pulwaiya; in the myth of the crocodiles' fight over fire he and the freshwater crocodile Minh Kanharr wound each other (the marks become their hides) and separate to salt and fresh water respectively.

Domains

• saltwater country

Powers

• to hold the saltwater river country

Relations

• rival: Minh Kanharr (the Freshwater Crocodile Ancestor)

Sources

• Ursula H. McConnel, Myths of the Mungkan (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1957).