TItc Fo/kltih's o/ tlic KinHii Pnpiians. 243 



Sh'i did not like bis Coming in tiiis way and said to him, „What name (why) you all time come 

 all same steal? I woman belong you." Sogi'o was ashamed ^A not giving any food to the vvoman 

 and her childien and therefore only came to her at night. 



Sogi'o's flrst wife became pregnant and after a time bore a child. Her people sent her 

 to stay in Sogio's house. One day she bade her boy go and ask Sogio to bring her drinking- 

 watei'. The boy brought the message to Sogio, who went to the well and filled up the water- 

 carrier, but instead of bringing it himself to the woman he let the boy take it. This was repeated 

 the next day. The mother sent the bo\' to Sogio asking him to bring her water, and Sogio 

 said to the boy, „.All right, you go get him water. " i)n hearing this the woman became furiously 

 angry and said to the boj', „What's the matter t'ather belong you no come bring me water seif.?" 

 She threw an empty water-vessel at the boy, who took it to his father, and Sogi'o forthwith went to 

 draw the water. 



In his absence the wtjman was transformed into a fierce monster akin to the un'ogon'tho 

 (cf. no. 135). Two large tusks like those of a boar protrudeJ from her mouth, and the hair 

 bristled up on her head. She caught her new-born baby, tore off its head and devoured the 

 body and head. The people, however, did not kno^v of her transf(.irmation. for there was an 

 enclosure of mats round her bad. 



Sogio returned from the well with the water-carrier filled. He called his boy saying, 

 „\'ou take o/jo/a (water-carrier)." But the woman shouted angrily from behind the mats, „No, 

 you take him he come. What's the matter }-ou cannot come see me? What for you talk long 

 way (from a distance)?" Her husband came and held out the vessel towards her saying, „Here." 

 But she called out, „You come inside!" Sogio came nearer, holding the water vessel at an arm's 

 length to give it her. .At the same moment she sprang up to catch him, but the man dodged, 

 and tled with the wild créature in pursuit. He ran, and she was after him the whole time. He 

 tried every means to hide himself, i'.in into the water. climbed a tree, and lay down in a hole 

 in the ground, but wherever he went she foUowed him by his scent. 



At last he got a start and ran to Kubira where he went into one of the houses, joining 

 some friends of his therc. „Where you come from?" they asked him, but he only replied, „1 

 ualk about;" he did not teil the people that he was pursued by an liriogon/ho. The wild woman 

 followed his tracks and went underneath the same house. She listened to hear where her husband 

 was. The people went to sleep, and a man said to Sogio, „You go sleep along my bed, I sleep 

 along road (the central gangwa\-)." 



In the middle of thj night the öriogoniho came into the house fceling her way about. 

 „Sogfo he here," she thought. „Kubi'ra man there." She caught the man neai'est to her, but it 

 was the Kubira man, not Sogio. Her finger-nails like spears eut through the neck of her victim, 

 and when he was dead she dragged him outside and ate him there. When she had gorged 

 herself she crawled underneath the house, lav down on her hack, and feil asleep. 



In the morning the people began to get up. The,' wondered at the sight of the blood ; 

 „Oh, what name (what is that) blood? Eil somebody been kaikai that man!" They questioned 

 the läsa man, „What's thi matter you run away?" Sogio said, „First woman belong me I no 

 been look out. He born pickaninny, he come all same ôriogonilio. He after me, I try stow away 

 — cannot. 1 come right up here, sit alongside my friend, that öriogoniho he come after me." 

 N:o 1. 



