The Folk-Tales of thc Kijvni Papunns. 49 



XV. PEOPLE ENGAGED IN FABULOUS OCCUPATIONS (374-386) 



EXTRAORDINARY METHODS OF FISHING. 



374. A man used to Hsh hy taking out his eye-balls, after which he plunged under 

 water, and the fish came and attached themselves to his eyelids and empty eye-holes. Then he 

 brought them on shore and put the eyes hack. Once while he v\'as in the water a bird ate up 

 the eyes, but his tvvo wives shot it, eut it open, and found the eyes which they put back in 

 their places. 



375. A girl used to eut out her sexual organs and then w'ade out in the watei- and catch 

 fish. When she finished she made herself intact again. Her genitals were once stolen by a man, 

 who kept them, and she died. 



376. A man used to spear dugong with his penis. One day he was caught by a shark, 

 and his spirit returned to his wife. 



377. .\ man caught fish by squatting down in the water, and the fish passed into his 

 anus, thinking that it was an opening in a stone. In the end he was killed by a large fish. 



THE MAN WHO TOOK OFF HIS HEAD AND PLAYED WITH IT IN THE SEA. 



378. A man used to eut off his head and let it play in the surf, and then he put it 

 back again. One day hc was carried away by two large fish. — He thought that the breakers 

 were people playing about in the water. 



THE MAN WHO FIRST WORKED AND THEN SLEPT INCESSANTLY. 



379. A man went on working in his garden day and night for a long time without 

 sleeping or eating. At length he finished, feil a.sleep, and slept the same length of time. When 

 he was awakened hy his people he did not believe that he had slept so long. 



THE TWO INDEFATIGABLE RUNNERS. 



380. Two men ran incessantly, the one first and the other in pursuit. After a long time 

 they came near the land of the dead and the man in front was speared by his pursuer. 



THE MAN WHO PADDLED HIS CANOE UNCEASINGLY. 



381. A man paddled his canoe unceasingly without ever getting up. .■^t length his body 

 stuck to the canoe, and there he had to remain sitting. 



THE BUSH WHICH GREW UP ROUND A MAN AND KEPT HIM ENTANGLED. 



382. A man drew his bow to shoot a fish but did not let fly. He remained standing in 

 that position till a dense bush grew up around him, and there he perished. 



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