Pansy Napangardi

This tells the story of how a long time ago the little willy wagtail told the elders at Illpilli (about 400km west of Alice Springs near the WA border) that if they look west they will see a small cloud. The willy wagtail told them that this cloud would grow into a big storm cloud and that they should build a windbreak to protect their community. This they did but when the storm broke it belted down very large hailstones that went down deep into the ground. The storm killed many people. There is now a spring at Illpilli that bubbles up in a small waterhole. The water is “cold, cold water” from those hailstones.