Note 358 — VIII. THE FAIRY-LORE OF SAVAGES.
Reading edition
Bonwick, Daily Life of the Tasmanians, 188, 206. The author suggestively calls attention to the similarity of this legend to the Hindu legend of Indra, who delivers the lovely Apas from the monster Vitra in the dark cavern of Ahi, a legend which has been taken to mean the fire-god who destroys the dark storm cloud that chases and maltreats the fleecy maidens of the sky.