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(136). A boj' ran away from his people and was received by an orfgoriiso. The two 

 caught and ate a woman, and once another woman was capîured alive, and the boy married her. 

 In the end the monster was killed, and the boy and his wife returned to the people. 



(137). One night an origoriiRo attacked the people who were encamped on an i.sland and 

 killed all the inmates of one of the huts. He was discovered and killed. The ne.\t day the people 

 found his wife and children and killed them as well. 



(138). Two girls looking for eggs were attacked by an origoriiso who lived underneath a 

 mound, and one of them was killed. The next morning the monster was found and killed. The 

 girl's death caused a quarrel in the village. 



(139). An origoriiso captured a man to whom his two daughter.s had taken a fancy, and 

 the man married them. After a time the monster wanted to eat him, but he was saved by his 

 wives. He killed the origoriiso, and the women wailed över their father. 



(140 — 143). Stories in which the origoriiso seize and kill people. 



(144). An origoriiso came to a man and his wife, and they ga\-e him a great quantity of 

 food to appease him. 



145 — 146. Beings akin to the Origoruso. Mue. The monster is described. Poopoo. 

 He carried off a girl to his lair beneath the ground, and she bore him a child. After a time. 

 she ran away with her baby, and the people fled to another place. 



147. TIic People fUe from a Malignant Being. The people fled from a vvild being which 

 had killed many of them, but a man and his wife were left behind. The monster came to them, 

 and they gorged it with food till it felt asleep. The woman placed a coconut-shell full of lice in 

 each house asking them to detain the monster when it woke up. Then the two paddled awa\'. 

 The monster woke up and calling out for the people was answered by the lice. On discovering 

 the déception it went in pursuit of the people and caught them up. But it did not kill them, and 

 they went and lived together in another place. — The monster was killed by the man just when 

 it was about to reach his canoe. 



148. A Hiwai-Abere (Malignant Female Being) spirits au'ay llie Wife of a Man and takes 

 her Place. A hiwai-abcre took a fancy to a man named Koudâbo. When his wife Bokari was 

 spearing fish the evil woman caused her to be hurled through the air into a tree on a distant 

 island. Then she simulated the wife and went to live with Koudâbo. Bokâri in the tree gave 

 birth to a hawk which grew to an immense size. She sent the bird to Koudâbo, and it fetched 

 him to the island. Bokâri was rescued, and on the return of the party the hiwai-abére was killed. 



149. Another Tale of a Hiwai-Abere ivho supplants a Wife. A hinmi-abcre caused a 

 \\oman named Si'ne to he lifted up by a tree which reared itself high into the air. The wicked 

 woman went to the husband and assumed the place of his wife. Sine bore a child in the tree, 

 and her blood attracted the snake-man Mâigidûbu. He brought her and the bab\' to his house 

 where he looked after them. Mâigidûbu invited the people to come and dance, and among the 

 guests was Si'ne's husband. Sine was given back to him, and the hiivai-nbrre was killed. 



150. A Hiwai-Abere usurps the Place of a Bride. No vare, an (>ri(3mu boy, could not 

 marry, for he had no sister to give in exchange foi- a wife, and his mother went to find him a 

 bride from some other place. She travelled from village to village and let the girls tr\- Novâre's 

 arm-bands, and the one they titted was tu be the wife. She found the boys and girls every where 



Tom. XLVII. 



