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the village latrine, and says to him, "Bite the yaepae" 

 (wooden bar), which the patient does, the priest reciting : — 



Ngaua i te pae, ngaua i te wehi 

 Ngaua i te upcko o te atua 

 Ngaua i a Rangi e tu nei 

 Ngaua i a Papa e takoto nei 

 Whakapa koe ki te ruahine 

 Kia whakaorangia koe 

 E tahito nuku, e tahito rangi 

 E tahito pamamao 

 Ki Tawhiti i Hawaiki. 



The following is another such karakia (charm, spell, in- 

 cantation, invocation) : — 



Ka kai koe ki tua 



Ka kai koe ki te paepae 



E takoto nei 



Koia Dga tnpu, koia rga popoa 



Koia rga whare, koia Dga uruDga 



Koia nga tapu nei 



He atua kahu koe 



Haere i tua, haere i waho 



Haere i te langi nui e tu nei 



MaMhi ora 



Ki te whaio ao, ki te ao marama 



Ko rou ora. 



After this rite the patient is noa, or free of the dread 

 tapu, and so recovers. 



Matakai. 



The matakai is a spell recited in order to bewitch a person 

 while he is in the act of eating, that the food and power of 

 the spell may pass together into his stomach. In two days 

 he will be assailed by illness. (See an account of the same 

 sort of magic in Welby's travels in Abyssinia.) It is said by 

 some that this spell causes a person to choke ; he cannot 

 swallow his food, it sticks in his throat. 



Tangi Tawhiti. 



This was a spell of magic in the form of a chaunt or dirge. 

 It was used in order to slay a person or persons sometimes 

 living far away. The following is a tangi taivhiti composed 

 and chaunted by the Tuhoe people in order to avenge the 

 death of Te Umu-ariki, one of their chiefs who had been slain 

 at Whangara : — 



Tangi taukuri ai, e te mamae ra 

 Takaio ra rnota ki whakaaro iho 

 Koia te tangata ringa taupoki patu kohuru 

 Ko tama e tu, ko Rehua tu roa 

 Rite rawa iara te toa taurekareka 

 Whakaorahanga ki te ra, ki te marama 

 Nou te kaha ki te ika tere 

 Ka pae kai a Matioro 



