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saying, „Mother, you there?" The vvoman said, „Oh, hoy, vvhere you come?" „I come here vvalk 

 about." He asked Bäsimu for the stone axe under pretext of helping him, but with a shell eut 

 through the rope with vvhich the stone blade was lashed to the handle, so that it came off; „Oh, 

 rope he broke him now!" Bäsimu said, „He no been stop long time that rope, morning I been 

 make him tight, what's the matter you break him?" And he asked Sido, „You go along house, 

 other stone axe he stop along dodo (shelf över the fireplace)." But, Sido said, „No, father, more 

 better you go, I no sa vy this place." Bâsimu went, leaving the two together, and Sido at once 

 committed an outrage on the ^woman, after which he left her. The husband on his return said, 

 „Woman, where boy.'" She answered, „What name boy (what kind of a boy) you been pick 

 him up all time, that boy he been humbug me!" Bâsimu, enraged, made „puripuri", sorcery 

 causing the branches of the trees to close över Sîdo's path, so that he could not get through. 

 Sfdo crept on all fours, trying to squeeze himself through, and was badly torn. (Nâmai, Mawâta). 



A. Similar to the preceding version. The injured husband, after Sido had outraged his wife, 

 put „poison-thing" in his footprints, saying, „You fellow go spear leg belong Sido." „He make him 

 track all same spear, Sido walk about no good now, something leg belong him he spear him." (Gibiima, 

 Mawåta). 



29. Sîdo's spirit was received at Kubira by a man named Mätere, and slept in the mens 

 house. He snored, feigning sleep until he found that Mätere was asleep, he then went stealthily into 

 the house where Mätere's wife was sleeping. In spite of her remonstrances, he forced her to have 

 connection with him. after which he went away. The wife told her husband of what had hap- 

 pened, and he chewed certain „medicines" which he spät out into Si'do's footprints saying, „Té- 

 meteme di ro säiro. — lUness shall pass into 3'our leg." Sido, feeling the effect of the bane, 

 cried out, „Asä! My leg is sore! Baba kcre! Man kére! — Father, mother, help!" (Bogéra, Ipisfa). 



30. A man and woman at Gibu were cleaving a tree when Sfdo made his appearance. 

 He took the stone axe, using it as a wedge for splitting the tree, and when the other man put 

 his hands into the cleft of the tree, Sfdo withdrew the axe, and the tree closed up, jamming both 

 the man's hands so tightly that he could not get them out. While the man was in that plight 

 Sido outraged his wife and went away. ^" (Gabia, Ipisfa). 



31. At a place in Wäpi Sfdo met a woman carry ing a small baby girl in a basket. Want- 

 ing to catch crabs she hung up the basket in a tree and went away, and the child was found 

 by Sfdo who put his finger into her vulva. Afterwards he changed himself into a gcöva, a certain 

 amphibian, and swam över to the other side of the creek. The mother came back and found 

 what Sfdo had done to the child, but could not detect him anywhere. (Nämai, Mawåta). 



32. Sfdo found some small boys beneath a tree called biirti, the fruit of which thej' were 

 eating. He climbed the tree, setting the boys to look out as he was going to shake down fruit, 

 but without listening to him they remained beneath the tree. Sfdo shook down the fruit on to 

 the boys, who at once began to scratch their heads, as he had caused vermin to come into their 

 hair. He said, „I been teil you, you fellow clear out, I go up that tree, you fellow no listen 

 me. By and by head belong you fellow full louse." (Gibüma, Mawâta) 



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