Catherine "Katie" Langloh Parker (1 May 1856 27 March 1940) was born at Australia and lived in New South Wales. She is well-known for recording the folk stories of the Aboriginal people. Her collection was one of the first attempts of researching Aboriginal people's folk, beliefs and short stories of north-west New South Wales. She is best known by her books such an "Australian Legendary Tales", "Tales of the Dreamtime", "Wise Women of the Dreamtime" and other.
This fairy-tale introduces one of the central characters of Australian folklore - Mayrah, The Wind That Blows the Winter Away. Everybody loves Mayrah as everybody is tired of cold winter.