Australia's Imjim Quinkin & Alaskan Lizard Men

The Yalanji tribe of Cape York had stories and artwork (up to 30,000 years old) of the Imjim Quinkins, nasty brown entities with long knobbly tails that they used like a kangaroo to travel in giant leaps across the land. 

The Imjin lived in caves and were tricksters that could mimic other voices and even shift appearence to deceive their victims. If they manage to get a human adult they would eat them, but children would be abducted to their caves and then through special rites tranformed into Imjin. 

For a long while I wondered if these Imjim were classic reptlians, as tackled in the lore of other cultures. Sometimes it is accidently stumbling on a small detail somewhere that confirms existing suspicions my research. 

In the attached snippets from the book Space Age Indians by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, an elderly Indigenous veteran, Aloquisha, tells of his encounter with lizard men while out hunting in Alaska. While there are several overlaps between these entities and the Imjim lore, it is the refernce to how they bounced along on their tails that stood out!

Of course, it's all just stories, so make of it what you will, but they certainly seem to be related descriptions...