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360. In Mäbuiag there lived a white heron which was also a man. He used to kill 

 many Bddu and Moa people. His little son was captured by the Baduites who tortured him by 

 placingMnim over a fire. He managed to wriggie himself free and plunged into the sea but was 

 taken by a shark. 



361. A man with an ulcerated sore under his foot took part in a fight and was led 

 between his tvvo brothers, as he could not walk by himself. While retiring before the enemy the 

 three brothers were left behind by their people, and finally the man with the sore had to be 

 abandoned and was killed. 



362. A man shot another man's dog and shared the meat with a friend. The owner of 

 the dog became suspicious on scenting the smell of cooking and found out what had become ot 

 his dog. A fight ensued. 



163. Under the cover of darkness a man came to visit a personal friend in a village 

 with which his people were at war. A dance was in progress in the village, and the visitor 

 stayed there all night, and only his friend knew that he was there. In the morning he escaped 

 before the people had time to catch him. 



.364. An Auti man and his wife went to buy a canoe in Di'biri, and in the night the 

 woman was outraged by a number of Üi'biri men. During the journey home she told her hus- 

 band what the Di'biri men had done. The tun returned home, and then the Auti people, headed 

 b}' the injured husband, went and took revenge upon the Di'biri people. 



XIV. PEOPLE WITH GROTESQUE AND MONSTROUS BODIES (365-313) 



DAGI OF THE LONG ARM. 



365. Ddgi's body was covered with hair, and he had an enormously long arm. At night 

 he used to send out his hand, and it stole food and fetched home other things which he needed. 

 Once the hand was captured by tvvo women whose food had been st(jlen, and they followed it 

 to Dägi's place. They became his wives, and one night they eut off his arm, giving it the length 

 it should have, and they shaved his body excepting certain parts. Dägi was very pleased with 

 the transformation, and his wives showed him to people at a great dance. 



THE MAN WITH THE ENORMOUS PENIS. 



.366. Waple, who had an enormous penis, lived in a hut by himself, and in another hut 

 lived his mother. Under various pretexts she enticed one girl after another to come to her, and 

 in the night Wäple's penis extended itself and crawled avvay to the girl, while he himself remained 

 in his house. The penis penetrated right through the girls, and thus they were killed. One 

 of the girls was warned by the spirits of her parents and managed to kill Wdple. The other 

 girls returned to life. 



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