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THE CAPTURED THIEF WHO BOUGHT HIMSELF FREE BY GIVING UP HIS WIFE, 

 AND HOW HIS CAPTOR WAS BITTEN BY A SNAKE. 



481. A man vvhen stealing from a garden was captured by a hunter and promised to 

 lend the latter his wife, if he set him free. Just as the hunter was about to have connection 

 with the woman he was bitten by a snake and died. The thief was at a loss how to explain 

 the death to the people. Everything was found out, and the thief was killed by the people. 



THE THIEF WOMAN AND HER INNOCENT VICTIM. 



482. A bundie of sago belonging to a certain woman was kept in the house close to' a 

 place where another v\'oman iay in childbed. The owner little by little ate the sago without 

 giving her husband any, and when nearly all was consumed she accused the sick woman of 

 having stolen it. The latter denied the charge but the people did not believe her and eut her 

 stomach open to see whether there was any sago. They did not find any and then turned 

 round and killed the false woman, in whose stomach they found the sago. 



THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ACCIDENTAL DEATHS. 



483. A woman was killed by a tree vvhich some people were cutting down. The latter 

 were considered responsible and had to give payment to her relatives. 



484. A little boy who had been left in the charge of an oid woman was killed through 

 an accident, and on their return his parents nearly beat the old woman to death. 



MURDER AND REVENGE. 



485. A man poisoned a boy, and the latter's father killed the murderer in revenge. He 

 eut off his head and placed it underneath that of the boy s as a pillow. 



A MAN'S REVENGE: HOW THE PIGS BEG AN TO DESTROY THE GARDENS 



OF THE PEOPLE. 



486. A baby boy was drowned accidentally, and his father blamed the people for his 

 death and took revenge by causing the pigs to come and ruin the people's gardens which they 

 had not done before. 



HOW A MAN THOUGHT THAT A WOMAN CALLED HIM A SORCERER 



AND KILLED HER. 



487. A man heard how a woman warned the children about a sorcerer, and thinking 

 that she meant him killed her. 



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