176 Gunnar Landtman. 



and said, „You no fright, I all same you. I stop good place, you no cry for me too much. 

 You go teil him pickaninny, he no cry too much for me, I stop good place." Before leaving he 

 gave Miruu a belt, which the latter kept for some time till it was lost — Gibüma himself had 

 Seen it. Mi'ruu said to Äua's children, „I been see devil (spirit) belong you (your) father. You 

 no crj' too much, father belong j'ou been speak, 'I stop good place.'" Since then Aua's clansmen 

 mourn for two or thee weeks only after a death. (Cf. no. 100; Gibüma, Mawâta). 



THE PEOPLE WHO FLED BEFORE AN ENRAGED GHOST. 



76. A man named Nädere lived at Davare. He used to werk in his garden, and when 

 he came home he prepared his own food and drank gåmoda before having his evening meal and 

 going to sleep. This was how he spent every day. Once the Ki'wai people came and fought 

 the Tabi'o people who live near Daväre. The body of a Tabi'o man, whose head had been eut 

 off, floated over to Daväre and was found by Nädere. 



He dragged the body up on the beach, and there it lay while he went on with his daily 

 work. On his return in the evening he prepared some food, and while it was cooking he put 

 on his dancing décoration of feathers and gay leaves and painted his body black. Lifting up the 

 dead body on his Shoulder Nädere began to dance and kept on in this way tili he was tired. 

 Then he put down the body in the same place, drank gninoda, ate, and went to sleep, The same 

 thing was repeated the next day, and Nädere again danced with the dead body, although it was 

 badly decaying. 



In the midst of the dance the spirit of the dead man arrived and frightened Nädere with 

 his terrifying roar. „What name (why) you play along me, make dance along me?" the enraged 

 spirit asked. Nädere threw down the body and ran into the house, but the ghost pursued him 

 thither, so he had to escape by another door. He ran and ran until he came to Tabio. „What's 

 the matter, Nädere?" the people asked him. „Oh, one man he run, he come behind me, you 

 fellow take bow, arrow, and stone club, fight him that man, that urio (spirit)." When the ghost 

 came running up, all the people were frightened too, threw down their vveapons, and took to 

 their heels, men, women, and children alike. They all ran to Irago, Nädere in the front of the 

 rest. He called to the Irago people, „Man there he run after me, un'o." „Let him come," they 

 said, „we kill him novv." They seized their weapons and waited inside the house ready to fight, 

 but when the ghost came up the ladder everyone ran away, Nädere foremost. The whole crowd 

 arrived at Koäbu, and Nädere said, „Man there he come, you stand by, uno he come, he wild 

 along me." All the people went into the house, and the Koäbu men said, „Let him come, we 

 kill him, fight him that man." The ghost came, and they all threw away their weapons and 

 fled as fast as they could, the Tabio, Irago and Koäbu people, with Nädere in front. When they 

 came to Ipidärimo, Nädere said, „You fellow stand by, take stone club, bow, and arrow." 

 „Plenty people he come fight?" the Ipidärimo people asked them. „No, one man." „What's wa}' 

 (how) one man make fright plenty people? Let him come, we kill him now."'" Two men 

 posted themselves, one on each side of the door and the rest further in. When the ghost came, 

 the men at the door shot him with their bows and arrows and broke his head with their stone 

 clubs. They eut off the head, and threw away the body into the water. The Ipidärimo people 



Tom. XLVn. 



