50 Gunnar Landtman. 



THE WOMAN WHO BAKED HER HUSBAND ALIVE. 



383. A man and his vvife wanted animal food, and she baked him ali\e in the earth 

 öven and coUected his fat in a basin. After that he came to himself, and they ate the fat. When 

 the same action was repeated another day she accidentally burnt him to death. 



THE MAN WHO WANTED TO MAKE HIS SKIN WHITE. 



334. The skin of one man was white from his birth, and a friend of his tried to make 

 his look the same by scorching himself in the fire, but he was burnt to death. 



VARIOUS EXTRAORDINARY OCCUPATIONS. 



385. A man and his wife used to shoot at each other with toy arrows. he aiming at 

 her vuh'a and she at his anus. In the end the woman shot her husband dead. 



386. A man pretended that his wife had been bitten by a pig and burnt her with a hot 

 stone which he put on her vulva. This was repeated, and the woman died. 



XVI. DREAMS (387-407). 



A. OMENS IN DREAMS (387-390). 



B. NIGHTMARE (,391—398). 



C. OTHER DREAMS (399—407). 



XVII. TALES OF CHILDREN (408-4i2) 



HOW THE WICKED MAN KILLED THE CHILDREN, AND HOW THE LITTLE BOY 



ESCAPED. 



408. An old man pretended to be dead, and his wife made some children drag the body 

 up into a coconut tree. When they reached the top the old man hurled them down, and he and 

 his wife ate their bodies. A little boy had stayed apart and saw the whole thing, and he 

 informed the people. The old man and woman were killed. 



THE CHILDREN WHO FOOLED AN OLD MAN AND WERE KILLED BY HIM WITH 



THE EXCEPTION OF THE LITTLE BOY. 



409. Some boys placed a dead snake on the path and frightened an old man who 

 thought that it was alive. He and his wife poisoned the boys b\- giving them the snake to eat. 



Tora. XLVII. 



