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While performing the above the priest repeated the follow- 

 ing :— 



Ka oho te po 



Ka rongo te po 



Ka rongo te ao 



Ka oho ki tua 



Ka oho ki waho 



Ka oho ki nga koromatua 



Ka tupu, ka rea 



Ka puta ki te whai ao 



Ki te ao marama. 



After which he recited the tuaimu, as follows : — 



Te imu kai te ruhi 



Te imu kai te rongo 



Ka rongo ki uta 



Ka rongo ki tai 



Ka rongo ki te po 



Ka rongo ki te ao 



Tuku tonu, heke tonu 



Te ika ki te po 



He ika ka ripiripia 



He ika ka toetoea 



He ika ka haparangitia. 



This rite was sometimes performed without the aid of the 

 tohunga. For instance, if a person when sleeping be warned 

 by his wairua (dream-ghost) that a tohunga mdkutu is trying to 

 bewitch him, then as soon as he awakes he must go and stand 

 before the altar of the tribal gods (atua, or ancestral ghosts), 

 and, standing facing the direction in which the hostile wizard 

 lives, he stretches forth his hand and repeats : — 



Avert thee, then, 



thou paralysing power of heaven ! 



Supernatural power of old is thy witchcraft 



That thou appliest to my organs, 



By the dread tnpv, by the all-powerful tapu. 



Fall thou in front, prostrate below, 



To thy kauwhau-ariki. 



After this he must recite an incantation (tuaimu) to weaken the 

 power of the enemy : — - 



The rite to effect exhaustion. 



The rite to effect the killing 



With the paralysing power 



Thy hand be wounded, thy hand be rotten. 



Press down earth, press down sky, 



Headlong falls thy prominence. 



Broken neck, 



Away, descend the victim to Hades, 



A victim that is slashed, is torn in shreds, 



A victim that is uprisen. 



Gather the flies, spread the maggots. 



Begone for ever to Hades, 



Begone to the Hades of blackness. 



