106 Gunnar Landtman. 



were betrayed by the cripple. In the fight Méuri killed Sido with his own hand, after which Si'do's 

 men, not mentioned before, all joined in the fight. They put the dead Sido in a canoe and went back 

 to Uiio taking with them Sagåru, who sat close to Sido crying. (Gabia, Ipisia). 



BEGINNING OF THE WANDERINGS OF SIDOS SPIRIT (no. 26—27). 



26. Si'do's spirit went homewards first, and his body was brought after it in a canoe. On 

 arriving at Doröpo tlie spirit found some boys playing on the sand-beach, and asked them, „Who 

 that you?" One boy said, „Me apisa, spider;" and the others said, „Me adardma, flying fox;" 

 „M^ pipite, bat;" „Me hhvio-iopu ;" „Me omof „M^ péra-péra" (various thorny shrubs). Sîdo then 

 asked them, „Who belong you?" „Me beiong make man life". „You can make me life?" They 

 asked him: „You devil (spirit)? You man?" „Me devil, body belong me stop along Meuri place." 

 They said, „Oh, more better you stop, you no go." The spider then blocked the way with a 

 cobweb, the fiying fo.x and bat tluttered before him in such dense flocks that he could not pass 

 through, and the bushes, full of thorns and entangling creepers, sprang up from the ground in 

 front of him and „shut him road, Sido he got no place." After a while the canoe with his body 

 approached, and Sfdo asked, „What name that thing?" They replied, „Oh, that bodj' belong you." 

 Sido said, ,1 man, no good you bring that body." (Gaméa, Mawâta). 



In référence to this laie the natives use parts of bats and thorny shrubs as „medicines" when 

 building a new house, and thereby they prevent death from entering the house prematurely. 



27. Sido's spirit on arriving at Gibu found some boys and giris swimming in the water 

 and said to them, „That time that canoe he come, you tell him them people chuck away that 

 dead man, he no proper Si'do, he dead thing, urio (spirît) he been come out, no good they keep 

 that dead thing." And Sido passed on his way. When the canoe came, the boys and girls said, 

 „Sagâru, Sido been say, you chuck away that dead man, he no .Sido. Sido been go finish." 

 Sagâru answered, „Oh, gammon, that Sido hère dead," for she did not want to part with the 

 body. 



Near by Sido met with Gibunogére, „the old man of Gibu", a mythical inhabitant of 

 that place. He was spearing fish, when the spirit came up and said to him, „You see that canoe 

 he come, you tell him people he no keep him that thing, chuck him away. Sido been walk 

 about hère, mark hère, you look." Sido went on, and Gibunogére asked the people in the canoe 

 to throw away the body, but Sagâru said, ,No, that proper Sido." The people went on shore 

 at Gibu, and Sagâru buried Sido in the ground. This was the last of her dealings with him, 

 „he (she) go one road, ôboro (spirit) belong Sido go other road.". Sagâru returned to her own 

 people at lâsa. (Nâmai, Mawâta). 



A. Gibunogére was spearing fish when Sido's spirit came up from the water begging, „Oh, 

 father, you no shoot me!" In spite of his request that his body should be Ihrown away, it was taken 

 to Uüo and buried Ihere. (Kâku, Ipisia). 



Tom. XLVII 



