1 10 Gunnar Landtman. 



have been that instead of death taking place the spirit should pass out of the old body, and at 

 the same time should be provided with a new one, and „Sido he want all people do same behind 

 (afterwards)." In every place, however, he was disturbed by some boys who through seeing him 

 prevented him from leaving his body, which he wanted to do alone, and he upbraided them, „You 

 fellow make him people no good, every people, every place." (Iku, Ipisia). 



A. Leaving his two mothers for a time, Sido went to a point near Uuo, where he dug a hole 

 in the ground and lay down at the bottom of it. He wanted to change his skin in ihe same way that 

 a snake does. The skin opened at the top of his head, and just as he was coming out he was seen 

 by some boys and girls, who said, „Oh, Sido he come out now!" Immediately he drew himself back, 

 not wanting to be seen, and returned to his mothers. 



After some time Sido went back to the same point and died there. The two women found 

 him and buried him, but his spirit came out again from the ground, leaving the body behind. Låter 

 on the women dug up the grave and took out his skull, which they wore by lurns round their necks. 

 (Nàmai, Mawåta). 



B. Sido's spirit was buried at Udo by the people who had brought him from Méuri's place. 

 In the act of coming out again from the ground he was seen by some small boys who called out, 

 „Sido there come out, Sido there come out!" This caused him to go back into ihe ground, as he did 

 not want to be seen. At night, however, he emerged from the grave, and in Ihe dark a light emanated 

 from him. „You take him lamp along dark place, ghost belong Sido all same. That's life belong him 

 come out." He continued his wanderings in a westerly direction towards Adiri, the land of the dead. 

 Taking leave of his mothers he told them, „You fellow no look round me, I go walk about this way 

 along Böigu. You two wait moon, suppose (when) moon he come out, me come back see you two." 

 (Gibiima, Mawåta). 



C. The people who brought Sido's body from Dibiri put it on a funeral platform. Sido told 

 his two mothers, „You two look out my head, niy bone." (Gaméa, Mawåta). 



D. When leaving for Böigu Sido said to his two mothers, „I go, you no come behind, by 

 and by I come back. Suppose you come behind, people no good." — According to anolher version 

 by the same narrator Sido said: „You fellow stop, you no come behind, I go look my place, suppose 

 I no find him good place, 1 come back." (Kâku, Ipisia). 



E. Sido said that he would return after a month and forbade his two mothers to follovv him. 

 (Amiira, Mawåta). 



F. A story, which is otherwise quite différent, contains a similar épisode (cf. no. 9 E): A woman, 

 M6le-ége, who lived alone in the bush at Glülu, caused people to develop out of worms. One day 

 she told these people, „By and by you me (we) no die, stop all time. You fellow look me." She 

 showed them how to open the skin över the nose, „Skin he break here, chuck him away old skin, 

 man he come out, new skin he come, no more old." The people, however, frustrated her in her scheme 

 by killing a pig in her absence, which she had ordered them lo keep alive. (Cf. no. 279, Séggium, 

 Dirimo). 



Tom XLVII 



