I04 Pomander CoUcction of Hawaiian Polk-loir. 



DREAMINV. OF A BLIND PERSON. 



Ill luck (lid not follow only by meeting- a sightless person in the road during the 

 day, but meeting with such a ])erson in a dream was also a sign of failure to obtain 

 the object greatly desired. As in the interjM-etation for the banana dream so would the 

 interpretation of this augury in a dream be ap])lie(l. In the same manner were the 

 hunchback, the lame, the crooked footed, or others of a like nature met with in a dream. 



38. OF THE Ml'D-IIEX'^ (aLAE). 



'Willis was a deity to some ])eople, and it was a sign of warning that death would 

 happen to some person, because, where there were manv houses, as in Honolulu, and in 

 places occupied by the people, there would the work of the mud-hen be shown. For 

 example: If a mud-hen clucked on one side, a person on the other side would surely die; 

 and if it clucked in the ujilands, some of those in the lowlands would die. Some of those 

 endowed with the order of ])riesthood thus declared, when they heard the clucking of 

 the mud-hen: "Some i)ersons will s(«)n die: the mud-hen is clucking. If it continues 

 clucking again and again until the voice is hoarse, some person will then die." These 

 were regular omens of death. 



39. OF HIGH SEAS AND Fl.OOn. 



These were important signs with the order of priesthood relating to the chiefs, 

 for if these events occurred at certain times the high priest declared: "A great peril 

 to a ruling chief will be the sequel to this high sea, or great flood, if such occurred at 

 the time: it will be the death of a king, or if not the death of a king then the overthrow 

 of the government." 



AUGURY OF THE HIGH SEA IN RELATION TO KINGS. 



If a high sea happened at some time, the like of which was not seen before, as a 

 tidal wave (like the Flood); or, if a tidal wave was not seen, only a great, high sea 

 which threw up the white sand inland, unlike anything of the kind before, a high priest 

 of the order of priesthood would declare: "A great chief will soon die; and if no chief 

 shall die after this, then the overthrow of the kingdom will be the sequel to this high 

 sea." In like manner was a tidal wave. If a tidal wave occurred their predictions were 

 similar on this omen of the order of priesthood with reference to chiefs. 



An Incident: About A. D. 1836, a high sea occurred, the like of which had never 

 been seen before. At that time Kaili was living at Lamaloloa, in Kohala. when the 

 writer of this account was thirteen years of age. At that time Kaili predicted of this 

 great sea, he being a man taught in weather prophecy, of chiefly rank on the side of 

 Kalaimoku. This is what he jirophesied: "A chief will soon die," and shortly after- 

 wards, Naihe,'" a chief, died at Kaawaloa. 



■'It is not shown wliicli of the two iilacs is here under knob where the feathers were burned away by the 



the ban of the priest, the white, or red (1)Ut probably tlie sacred tire." — Hcnshaw's "Birds of Hawaiian Islands." 



latter), both of which ligure in Hawaiian mythology, the -■■The prominence of this worthy chief of Kona and 



red being credited as "the tirst that stole lire from tlie coincidence of his death at time of a tidal wave was 



gods and gave it to the natives hence its crimson frontal sufficient to attribute remarkable foresight to Kaili. 



