JURWADBAD
Australian Folklore
This is the name of a man-snake in the Dreamtime legends of the Gunwinggu people of Arnhem Land in northern Australia. JURWADBAD wanted a particular woman of the tribe of humans for his wife, but she refused him, and she and her mother both made fun of him. Sometime later the young woman took as her lover BULUGU, a water-snake-man, and the distraught JURWADBAD plotted his revenge. He slithered into an enormous hollow log when he knew that they were foraging for food. Soon the daughter peered into the log searching for grubs. JURWADBAD closed his eyes so that the log appeared to have food possibilities, but when the mother looked in, he opened his eyes so wide that she thought she saw daylight at the other end. So both women put their hands into the log to get food they thought was within, and JURWADBAD bit and killed them both. This is a story that has been enacted by the Urpar cult as a rain-bringing ceremony.
Source: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth