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the tree and brought down the man untyins his ropes. He had been rolled up so quicUly in 

 the mat, that he had not even seen his assaiiant, and they told him that it was the drigoniso. 

 He asked the girls, „What time he corne, father belong your" „Close up sundovvn he come." 



Seizing his bow, arrows, and beheading knifc the man lay in wait t'or the ôrigoriiso 

 close to the path. At last the monster made his appearance carrying a great load of sago. The 

 man put an arrovv on the string and shot the on'gorûso under his left arm so that the arrow 

 passed right through his body,^i after which he beat the créature to death with his stone-club. 



On his return to the house the girls asked, „VVhere father belong me?" „1 been shoot 

 him, he dead." The girls were sorry and begged him, „That my father, you no eut him head." 

 They buried the ôrigoniso and stayed on in the same house. (Manu, Ipisia). 



140. A man and his wife stayed two months in the bush making sago, and meanwhile 

 their boy and girl remained at home. A number of or/gorûso were vvandering about in the night, 

 and scenting people they went underneath the house where the boy and girl were sleeping. 

 Little suspecting anj^ danger the boy opened the donr and went out to defecate, but when he 

 saw ail those origorâso underneath the house he went back terrified. He seized his bow and 

 arrows and the woman her digging stick, and lifting a board of the floor they attacked the 

 monsters. The ôrigoniso, however, with their long tusks like those of a boar, caught the boy 

 and girl round their ankles and puUed them down through the hole. They eut them in two at 

 the waist and devoured both halves, hones and ail. 



The mother and father, missing their boy and girl, summoned the people to come and 

 look for them. On finding the blood they knew that the origorâso had taken them and began 

 to wail. (Manu, Ipisi'a). 



141. An origorûso lived in a hole underneath the ground close to Kubfra. He caught 

 one man after another and dragged them into the hole where he ate them. Once in the act of 

 seizing a small boy he was seen by a cripple who never left the house, * and when the mother 

 and father inquired after their boy, they were told by the cripple what had happened, and they 

 vyept over their child. After the people had returned home a large pole was thrust into the hole, 

 and the origorûso was forced to come up. .AU the men shot their arrows at him, and the 

 monster was killed. They found the boy's body in his belly and buried it. The origorûso was 

 thrown into the water. (Tâmetàme, Ipisi'a). 



A. Another rather similar taie. (Ibia, Ipisi'a). 



142. A. Djibu man was asked by a girl to come to her in the night, and tinding her door 

 closed dug a passage underneath the wall to try and get in that way. ') He was killed and 

 carried off by an origorûso, who lived underneath the ground in the bush. In the morning the 

 people saw his blood sprinkled all over the ground, and following these tracks they found the 

 abode of the origorûso. They dug into the ground, and seized and killed the créature. When 



') The Djibu houses are built ou tlie ground, not ou piles (cf. p. 6). 

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