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take him out." „Go take out rope," the woman cried, „I give you plenty thing." „All right, 

 show me that thing." „You go there, close to tree." The man went there and found a cooking- 

 shell. The male spirit, who had been there all the time at a distance, threw down his bow and 

 arrows, saying, „Here, belong you; take out rope." The man said, „Close up daylight, I take him 

 out." Just then the man's wife and son arrived. The boy said, „You been catch him that 

 mànakai?" „Yes, I catch him now." „Good you catch him. You me (we) härd work, plant him 

 plenty thing, that two fellow come finish every thing." 



The man untied the strings from the woman saying, „I take him out rope now, next time 

 you no come here. Suppose you come, 1 kil! you." And the spirit-woman said, „Next time 1 no 

 come take kaikai belong you. No good you fellow look me along daylight: head belong me no 

 good, nose, skin no good." The male spirit said, „I go back now house altogether, no more come 

 here." The two spirits departed, and the man put up some sticks to block their way. 

 (Avåti, Ipisfa). 



ANOTHER CAPTURED SPIRIT, 



78. A Kfwai man named Kitudre whose wife was pregnant, went to hunt pigs in the 

 bush, and without his knowing it the woman died in childbirth the same night. For this reason 

 Ki'tuâre did not get a single pig, for they all ran away before he had time to shoot. At last he 

 gave up hunting and went to take shelter in a small hut in the bush. The spirit of the woman 

 had come to the hut before him and lighted a fire there. When Ki'tuâre came in, the spirit said 

 to him, „Kitudre ogu oriihona nöi ogirihori. — Kitudre, you come, kaikai here." Ki'tuâre thought, 

 „Oh, that (is a) oboro (ghostj, that no proper woman," but he was not afraid, for he was a strong 

 man. He and the spirit were sitting one on each side of the fire. The woman gave him food, 

 but he did not dåre to eat, for he thought, „That kaikai belong devil (a dead person)." When 

 the spirit had eaten she lay down and feil asleep. After a while Kîtuâre asked her, „You sleep?" 

 and as she did not stir, he went out.^^ He left the house, closing the doors behind him, and 

 in a creek near by he found a small canoe in which he paddled away towards the village. 



The spirit got up. „Where Kîtuâre.' Oh, he been run away!" and she ran after him. 

 There was a tree hanging över the creek which she climbed up, and as Ki'tuâre came paddling 

 underneath she jumped down and stood on his knees. She remained standing there while Ki- 

 tuåre paddled along. It was dawn when they reached the village, and Ki'tuâre, who heard the 

 people wailing, thought to himself, „Oh, people he cry now, wife belong me he dead." The 

 spirit said, „1 want go shore," but Kituâre squeezed her feet between his knees and caught her 

 by the hand. When the canoe stranded, he got up and wanted to lead the spirit to his house, 

 but the woman wrenched herself free and got away, although the skin of her wrist was left in 

 Ki'tuàre's hand. He went into the house, and the people asked him, „You no shoot him pig?" 

 „No, that woman been humbug me. I catch him, skin belong him here." When Ki'tuâre went 

 to see the body of his dead wife, he found her wrist intact. He kept the skin of the ghost for 

 a long time. (Tom, Mawata). 



Tom. XLVIl. 



