204 Gunnar Landtman. 



the canoe with one of the spines pointing after the vessel, and the crevv are forced to paddle for 

 their lives. 



Pairio was at first a malignant female being akin to the hiwai-abére (ef. no. 148), which 

 are called dögai-orobo by the „outside Island people". She livad on Mârukâra Island. One day 

 she was pursued by a cloud of butterflies which could not be chased away hut settled on her 

 till she was entirely covered by them. In order to get rid of them, the woman went into the 

 water, where she became a „cat-fish", and many of the butterflies who followed her scent, got 

 into the water too. They were soaked through and their wings became härd, spines appeared 

 on their backs, and they were transformed into „stone-lish" and „cat-fish", as gay-coloured as 

 the butterflies had been. (Nämai, Mawäta). 



THE HAUNTED PLACE WHERE A MAN HAD BEEN DROWNED. 



119. Once when some Géretäva people sailed över to a small Island called Aumamöko 

 to plant sago, a man named Matåre was left behind at home. He came running out on the 

 beach, carrying the sago-shoots ready for planting, and shouted after the others, „You fellow corne 

 back, I want go too. VVhat name (why) you no wait me fellow?" But they would not listen 

 to him. Matare began to swim after the canoës carrying the young sago plants with him. He 

 swam and swam, but at last became tired and sank. When the canoës returned from Aumamoko, 

 the crew were asked by those who had remained in the village, „Where Matare?" „Oh he been 

 go down along water." 



Matare became an ororàrora (mythical being, ef. Introduction to no. 102) in the water. 

 Whenever a canoe approaches the place where he was drowned, all singing on board ceases, 

 and the crew make a wide circuit so as to avoid the spot. (Dåbu, Mawåta). 



B. INCIDENTS WITH MYTHICAL BEINGS (no. 120-184). 



THE ORIOMU RIVER BEING AND THE GOOD AND BAD BROTHER. 



120. In the Ôriômu river lives a being like a man in appearance, his name is Pamöa, 

 or Pamoaburo, and he is akin to the water-beings called obotibi (ef. no. 132). 



A man IvrJgu and his younger brother used to live near the mouth of the river. Once 

 when Ivögu was paddling upstream in his canoe to look for birds, carpet-snakes, and iguanas 

 in the overhanging branches, Pamöa came out of the water and wanted to climb into his canoe 

 and go with him. Ivögu let him get in the canoe, and they set off together. The Péwoda people 

 asked them, „Where you two fellow go? He got one hiivai-abcre (malignant female being, ef. no. 

 148) inside (inland), you two look out." The hhvai-abcre Ii ved in the bush, where she had a 

 house and garden, and alongside the creek there was a coconut-tree belonging to her. In another 

 place, too, where all the grown up people had gone to the bush, Ivögu and Pamöa were warned 

 by the children who remained in the village: „Where you go?" they asked, „He got devil-woman 



Tom. XLVIl. 



