530 Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folk-lore. 



Soon after this conversation the ])rophet appeared. He had gone on until an 

 idea occurred to him to return, Ijecause he realized that if he did not come back then 

 all these people would be eaten by this god; for the head was not dead; its spirit still 

 lived. And when he came to where these two were talking he said: "1 have returned 

 because I feared you would all be consumed. Youv husband is coming, but it w'ill be 

 when nearing- night ; you will then behold your husband coming to you in the same 

 way he usually appeared. So, do not stay here ; all of you go to your brother's house, 

 and we w'ill wait there. When he arrives then all of you surround me so that he can 

 not see me; do you not, however, acquiesce in his request to come liack and live with 

 him, because if you do you will surely die." 



Not long after that the one they were talking about appeared and urged the wife 

 to return and live together with him, but the wife did not reply on account of fear. 

 The i)rophet, however, chased it. That is what I have learned. 



Before the woman was taken into the house and left there the prophet had al- 

 ready said to her: "If you are cold, go into the house; then listen attentively. When 

 you hear the first whistle, then you will think that it is not near; at the second whistle, 

 he has drawn nigh, and when the whistle sounds again, he is very near; then you move 

 further in to the corner of the house, lie down and keep still and wait for his arrival. 

 Vou will not fail to notice his coming; when the outside here is lighted up, he has ap- 

 peared. When he arrives he will not enter the house; his hands will be groping in- 

 side while his head will remain outside watching other people ; but when the inside is 

 lighted up, then he has entered the house; you will then hide vourself well so that he 

 will be delayed in his search for you." 



After the prophet was through talking, the woman went and stayed in the house. 

 All kept awake, however, and at about midnight, they heard the sound of a whistle, and 

 they knew that he would soon appear ; when the whistle sounded again the prophet ran 

 over to the house where the woman was and said to her: "Should your head of a hus- 

 band ask you to give him your son to rear, do not consent; and should he ask you to 

 come outside do not go outside, else you die." The real reason for his coming up, how- 

 ever, was to find out whether or not she was asleep; but when he called, she answered. 

 So the prophet returned to the house from which he came. Arrived there, he heard 

 another whistle, and still another, and after that the head arrived at the house and 

 called out to the wife, "O Kaneikiawaiuli!" The other answered. The head said: 

 "Please come out here." Kaneikiawaiuli replied: "I will not come out." "Why not?" 

 asked the head. "It is raining for Kaala is shiny." "There is no rain," answered 

 the head. 



Again the head spoke: "Then please let me have one of our children and I will 

 give it food; I have that which is greatly desired by our child, the banana; it is well 

 ripened." "I will not give you one." It went on thus for a few minutes, when he 

 rushed in and felt around, but the woman was not found; the head finally got into the 

 house ; it was then the prophet and others ran and lilocked the doorway, and the woman 

 ran and got outside. The door was closed. The head called from inside: "Say, 

 please do not close the door on me; I wish to come outside." But the door was not 

 opened, and the house was set on fire. The other kept calling from the inside. It kept 



