208 Gunnar Landtman. 



The next day the éterari opened its mouth, and the dögs jumped out first and after them 

 Keréma. He saw from the track that bis people bad been tbere wailing for him, and he was still 

 so frightened that he too began to wail. When he returned to the village, tbe people wondered 

 at first wbether be was a spirit or a living man, and he kept on crying. He felt too tired to 

 teil tbe people of bis adventure and lay down to sleep. 



In tbe morning be called tbe people and related what had bappened to him and what the 

 stränge people inside tbe éterari had told him (abbrev.). Wben be bad finished, tbe people said, 

 „Next time me no go kill pig that place, tbat belong éterari.'''' 



Tbe éterari's people had taught Keréma to make beheading knives for himself and bis 

 fellow tribesmen when they went out fighting. The particular kind of bamboo of whicb such 

 knives are made bas been planted by tbe éterari's people, and tbey showed Keréma bow to split 

 tbe bamboo in two balves and to make the handles. Keréma and his people were told to eut 

 off the heads of their slain enemies and bring them home, not to leave the whole bodies in the 

 bush as they were wont to. The heads should be hung över a fire, and it was tbe task of the 

 boys to scrape and clean tbe skulls, for tbe particles of blood and flesh which would stick under 

 their finger-nails was a „medicine" which in due time would make them great warriors. And 

 Keréma taught bis friends everytbing that the éterari's people bad imparted to him. (Continued in 

 no. 6 A; Gaméa, Mavvåta). 



INSTRUCTION RECEIVED FROM MYTHICAL BEINGS IN DREAMS 



(no. 122— 1 29; ef. Index, Dreams). 



122. A long time ago a Mâsingâra man named Gfrede used to poison his arrows with 

 the juice of a certain tree, but the „medicine" did not kill well. He wanted to find out some 

 more powerful poison, and one day be told bis wife that sbe was not to expect him borne for 

 tbe night, as he intended to sleep in the busb. He found tbere two large trees eacb of which 

 was tbe abode of a spirit. Gfrede performed tbe karéa rite with gdmoda (ef. p. 14), and being 

 uncertain wbether tbere really were any spirits in tbe trees or not he said, „Devil (spirit), you 

 stop wood? Suppose you stop, you bear my talk. Wben I sleep night, you come, you learn 

 (teach) me. Every time I shoot man along iéna (bone-pointed arrow), he no dead. You come 

 show me poison belong iéna." He put some food on the path and lay down to sleep. The two 

 spirits came and took the food, and after eating it they woke up Gfrede, saying, „Gfrede, what 

 name (what is it) you want him?" „I shoot man belong iéna, be no dead; I want you help me." 

 „What kind iéna, you been make him?" „I make him bone belong pigeon for iéna." „No, no," 

 the spirits said, „that pigeon no good thing, more better you take him bone belong kangaroo. 

 You take skin belong man, burn him, you rub iéna along that ashes, tbat's good poison that. 

 You no make him iéna where people be stop, you make bim along small bush. You stow him 

 away along house, keep him two, three day, bebind (afterwards) you show him people what way 

 make him iéna." The two spirits remained all night talking to bim, and at dawn they returned 

 into their trees. 



Gfrede found some kangaroo bones in a refuse iieap, and sharpening them with a shell 



Tom. XLVII. 



