The Folk-Taks of IIk Kiwai Papuans. 179 



THE SPIRIT OF A DEAD MAN WHO WAS KILLED A SECOND TIME. 



79. An enormous pig was roaming about in the bush. Once it was seen by a man, 

 who thought to himself, „That (is) no pig, that urio (spirit) belong man. Suppose I shoot him, 

 I think he corne kaikai me." Ne\'ertheless he shot an arrow at the pig, and the beast grunted 

 but was unhurt, as the arrow had not penetrated the skin. The man fled. Another time when 

 he was out hunting his dogs started the same pig, and shooting tVom the shelter of a large tree 

 he hit it in the side, killing it on the spot. He eut up the méat, carried it home, and distributed 

 it among the people. 



In the night the pig appeared to the man in a dream and said, „What for you been 

 shoot me? I been dead before, I been go away, come back, see this place where I been die. 

 Now you kiil me again, I die two time. Fault belong you kill me." (Sâibu, Mawâta). 



THE RETURNING SPIRIT OF A DROWNED CHILD. 



80. An unmarried girl became pregnant from using a pièce of clay and in due course 

 bore a child. The people ail wondered who the father of the child was. One day, when the 

 mother was away, some men seized the baby and threw it into the water where it was drowned. 

 After that the spirit of the child appeared there several nights in succession crying. (Tâmetâme, 

 Ipisia). 



THE WOMAN WHO HEARD A SPIRIT CALLING HIS TAME PIG. 



81. Long ago a Mawâta woman named Wabira, who had gone at sundown to her 

 garden to fetch food, heard an ôboro (spirit of a dead person) calling his tame pig by grunting 

 to it and shouting its name, „Birari." Afterwards the same spirit called out the name of his boy, 

 „Wârai, obobo! — Wârai, come quick!" While the woman was occupied with pulling up taro 

 in the garden she saw the spirit whose voice she had heard. On arriving home she told the 

 people, „1 been see one devil (spirit), he sing out pig, he sing out boy, too." 



At Mawâta there live an old man and an old woman who are Wabira's children. This 

 story belongs to their kin, and a boy of their relatives is named Wârai after the spirit. A pig 

 belonging to some one of that group is alwaj's named Bi'rari, since Wabi'ra heard a spirit calling 

 his pig so. (Amùra, Mawâta). 



THE MAN WHO HEARD A SPIRIT CALLING HIS DOGS. 



82. A Mawâta man named Néteru, the grandfather of the narrator of this story, once 

 went out to the bush in quest of pig, and there was at the same time an ôboro (spirit of a dead 

 person) hunting in the bush. One of Néteru's dogs remained behind, and as he was calling 

 it, he heard the ôboro, too, calling his dogs, „Nûnu, Téperi, Gâido!" When Néteru came home 

 he told the people, „One devil he sing out dog." After that he gave three of his dogs the same 

 names, and his descendants still use thèse names for their dogs. (Amûra, Mawâta). 



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