Question while I procrastinate catching up on any of these posts I have yet to read: does anyone here know any local myths that take place in the area where you live or lived? 

I've been reading just a little indigenous lore lately. One of the main stories of the Noongar people is involved in how a lake in my district got its name. 

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[i]There was once a woman spirit named Junda, a giant, who was of evil repute. She wandered the land collecting child spirits, hiding them in her long, thick white hair for safekeeping as she roamed. The elders of the land were angered by her mischief, and so they took on the shape of koorlbardi, the Australian magpie, and pursued her. They chased her far across the land and pulled many little spirits from her hair as she ran. On landing, they became stone outcrops still seen today.

Eventually, Junda reached a high stone far inland, and from it she leapt into the sky, where the koorlbardi could not reach. There she stays, to this day, knowing that the elders will pursue her again if she returns to the earth. Her white hair forms the Milky Way, and the child spirits still kept therein are bright stars. The Hyades constellation is her encampment, and the red star Aldebaran her fire. She still looks down wistfully on the land from which she was exiled.

On a clear night, as she looks down, you can see her hair reflected in the waters of a big lake in the north. So the lake and region are called 'Joondalup', 'shining place', and retains the name to this day.[/i]
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...or so the story goes! Sources are a little scarce.