242 GUNNAH Landtman. 



its course wh'îiiever she wanted soine event to take place quickly. After a numbcr of women 

 had disappeared, the peuple be^an to .suspect that somethiiig was wrong. One night the trutli was 

 disclosed to some of them in a dreani inspired by tiie spirits o( the women who had been i<illcd. 

 The next morning when the hag was lying m her house, unabie to niove after eating so much tlesh, 

 the people set fire to her house. Before she perished in the fiâmes, her heart burst open, and a 

 voice said to the people from the opening,*" „Good job you fellow find me along dream, close 

 up I finish you fellow." The people destroyed her gardens saying, „You been spoil me feliov\." 

 The gardens shared the responsibility, for from them came the food with which the people had 

 been enticed to come and visit the hag. (Gui. DiVimo). 



THE MURDER OF A „WILD WOMAN" WHO USED TO STEAL FROM A GARDEN. 



156. A man called Karumo and his wife Kûe lived at truûpi. An old woman, who 

 lived a Bûnùo, used to come and steal from their garden. She was \'ery fierce and used to eat 

 people. One day Karumo went in search of the old woman 's abode, for he wanted to kill her. 

 He walked for three days together and at last reached her place, where he met her in her garden. 

 The woman said, „Oh, you com3 hère, you come inside along my house, sit down, you me 

 (we) yarn," but the treacherous créature meant to kill him. Karumo did not want to kill her at 

 once but thought that he would like to speak to h^r first. The woman said, „You go wait me 

 inside along house, you me (we) yarn by and by". She eut some taro-leaves in which to bake 

 the man after killing him. In a little while she followed him into the house and stealthily picked 

 up a large arrow, but the man watched her and thought to himself, „That woman want kill me, 

 that's why he take 1ère (arrow)." The woman tried to spear him from behind, but he got up, 

 caught hold of her hand, and with one blow smashed her temple with a pièce of wood. He eut 

 off her head, put it on his head-carrier, and burnt the house; he also shot one of her pigs so as 

 to hâve food on the way. Carrying some méat and the head he set out on his way back. 

 Gradually the head began to decay, and large blue flies bored a hole into it and svvarmed over 

 the man too. ^* 



Kârumo's wife was wailing at home, „Oh, what time my man he come? I think he 

 dead, I got no man, no people hère. Where I go stop?" At last Karumo arrived, and his wife 

 called out, „Oh, my man, he come now, he got one head." Karumo threw down the head in 

 front of his wife, and she asked him, „You been kill who?" „That woman, he come steal ail 

 time, that's him. 1 been burn him house." (Vasârigi, Mawdta). 



THE WOMAN IN CHILD-BED WHO BECAME A M ALIGNANT BEING (cf no 215) 



157. An lâsà man named Sogi'o had two wives. His first wife, who had born him two 

 children, li\'ed with her parents, and his second wife, by whom he had four children, lived u'ith 

 him. The two women alvvays used to quarrel and for this reason lived apart. Sogio did not 

 look after his first wife and her children but left them to her family to be supported, while he 

 remained with his second wife. Occasionally at night, however, he used to visit his first wife. 



Tom. XLVII. 



