Wirreenun the Rainmaker

Catherine "Katie" Langloh Parker (1 May 1856 – 27 March 1940) was born at Australia and lived in New South Wales. She is well-known for recording the folk stories of the Aboriginal people. Her collection was one of the first attempts of researching Aboriginal people's folk, beliefs and short stories of north-west New South Wales. She is best known by her books such an “Australian Legendary Tales”, “Tales of the Dreamtime”, “Wise Women of the Dreamtime” and other.


This legend tells us about one the main characters of Australian folklore - Wirreenun the Rainmaker. He is the one to save the situation when drought come, as everything gets dry and then comes Wirreenun and brings rain.