ABSTRACT
This chapter helps the reader to understand that one dust devil might just be that, a dust devil, but that another one, the one traveling along an erratic path, might be a monster that made itself otherwise invisible. It suggest that Warlpiri people distinguish between storm clouds coming in and an angry rainbow serpent tracking somebody from the sky, and between different sounds in the bush always aware which bird songs or types of whistling signal supernatural danger and which ones signal safety. The deeds of Pangkarlangu are recited in Warlpiri stories, myths and songs, are retold around the fires in the evenings, and these days are also depicted in Warlpiri schoolbooks. In one of these schoolbooks, produced by the Literacy Centre of the bilingual Yuendumu School, the late Neville Japangardi Poulson, artist and gifted storyteller, provides a brilliant illustration of a large, hairy Pangkarlangu wielding a spiked club.
