48 . Gunnar Landtman. 



THE MAN WHOSE SCROTUM WAS A YAM. 



367. Gâlegi'de's scrotum was a large yam which was fixed in the ground. He and his 

 mother had no proper house but lived heneath the shelter of the yam leaves. Two sisters, Tâgle 

 and Lüde, lived some distance away, and one day Tâgle vvent to obtain fîre from Gâlegi'de. She 

 scratched the yam root, and a stream of blood burst out and followed her home, making a mark 

 on the wall of her house, afterwards returning to the yam. Gâlegïde sent his mother to fetch 

 the girl on whose house he had put the mark, and at first the wrong girl was brought to him. 

 After Tâgle had hecome his wife shc killed him by breaking the yam scrotum. Tâgle ran hdrne, 

 and the two sisters hid in a large tree and could not be found by the old woman who came 

 in pursuit. 



THE MAN WHO HAD NO MOUTH OR ANUS. 



368. The girl Mûrke was badly treated by he'r step-mother and ran away from home. 

 She planted yams and bamboo in her track in order to enable her father to follow her. She 

 came to Iregi'de, a man who had neither mouth nor anus. Mùrke looked after him and one night 

 eut a mouth and anus for him. Her father followed her and brought her home, and iregi'de was 

 their friend. 



THE BOY WITH A LEG LIKE A CASSOWARY. 



369. A boy had been born with one of his legs like that of a cassowary and used it 

 for kicking people to death when he was engaged in a fight. A friend of his desiring a similar 

 leg eut off one of his own and attached that of a cassowary instead. Once in a fight the two 

 friends were left behind by their people. The artificial leg stuck in the mud and broke f)ff, and 

 the owner was killed. His friend avenged his death låter on. 



THE MAN ON WHOSE HEAD A TREE WAS GROWING. 



370. A seed started to grow on the head of a man and developed into a tree. The 

 birds used to perch there, and he caught them by cautiously walking with them into a house. 

 A friend of his planted a tree on his head, and the two men caught birds together. One night 

 when the man with the planted tree went to sleep and laid his head dovvn the tree broke off, 

 and he died. 



371. A man used to stand up perfectly still, and when the birds alighted on him he 

 walked with them into his house. One day when he was standing on the beach a hird dropped 

 its dung on to his head, and a tree grew up there. Waiting motionless the man became entangled 

 in the roots and perished. 



OTHER PEOPLE WITH EXTRAORDINARY BODIES. 



372. The breasts of one woman were like two pièces of wood, and she used them for 

 fighting people. 



373. One woman in addition to her feminal organs had a penis. 



Tom. XLVn. 



