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B. TALES OF DEAD PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDERNEATH THE BURYING GROUND. 



69. A man was kindling a fire on his brother's grave when the ground broke open, and 

 he feil into the grave. After a few days he returned and told the people about the place of 

 the dead. 



70. A man had in a dream an adventure vvith the dead people who live under the 

 burying ground. 



71. Two girls ran after two spirit boys who had taken part in a certain ceremony, and 

 one of them went avvaj' vvith the spirits underneath the ground. 



C. OTHER MEETINGS WITH RETURNING SPIRITS OF THE DEAD. 



72. The Spirit ivho helped a Man fish. While fishing one night in his canoe a man was 

 joined by a spirit. It was a good while before he found out that his companion was a ghost, not 

 a living man, and he gave the apparition some fish. On their way back the spirit disappeared 

 underneath the burying ground. 



73. The Dead Matt who came to see his Frieiid. Before dying a certain man had pro- 

 mised to come and see a friend of his when he died. His spirit put in an appearance, but the 

 people frightened him away prematurely. 



74. Another Spirit who came to look for a Friend. The spirit of a man who had just 

 died came and ran after a certain friend of his. He had threatened to seek him out when he died. 



75. The Man who -was visited by the Spirit of his Dead Brother. A dead man once 

 came to his brother in a garden and spöke to him. 



76. The People ivho fled before an Enraged Ghost. A certain Davâre man found the 

 beheaded body of a man and began to dance with it. In the night he was harassed by the 

 spirit of the dead man and ran away to Tabio. On learning why he had fled the people there 

 armed themselves, but when the ghost came they all took to their heels and ran to Irago. The 

 people there determined to be brave, but at the appearance of the ghost the whole crowd ran 

 away. The same thing was repeated at Koäbu and the people there joined in the general flight. 

 .-^t length the ghost was killed at Ipidàrimo. 



77. The Man who captured u Spirit. A male and a female spirit one night came to a 

 man who was watching a grave. They spöke to him and put something in his hand. Another 

 night he managed to capture the female spirit. She and the male spirit offered him various things, 

 asking him to let her go, but he waited till daylight before he untied her ropes. 



78. Another Captured Spirit. While a man was away hunting his wife died, and her 

 spirit came to him. She jumped into his canoe, and he caught hold of her. When they were 

 near home the spirit wrenched itself free, leaving the skin of her one wrist in his hand, and 

 he kept it. 



79. The Spirit of a Dead Man who -was kil/ed a Second Time. The spirit of a dead 

 man returned in the shape of a pig and was shot by a hunter. It wailed because it had been 

 killed twice. • 



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