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look, good fellow boy he corne.'' The ororàrora jumpeci out tVnm the tree and seized Tu. The 

 tcrrified boy cried out, and Ihe giils .saiJ, „Father, you no kaikai, 1 w.int niaiiy him," .So Uiey 

 kcpt the boy in the tree (cf. no. 1.39). Tu's father and mother missed Iheir boy but could not 

 und him anywhcre, so they wailed l'or him, and as they believed him to be dead prepared a 

 mourning feast. One night the boy wanted to go and see his parents, and his vvite vvent with 

 him. They heard the wail of the old folk in the house, and the boy called out to them to open 

 the door. The mother and father received tliem with great gladness, and the boy told them what 

 had happened to him. In the morning ail the people came to see him and asked him a number 

 of questions. Many of them went with the boy and his wife, when they returned to their home 

 in the tree. The orordrora opened the door, and in spite of their terror the boy's mother and 

 father were induced to go into the tree which inside looked like a house. The boy and his 

 orordrora-wik continued to live in the bush, but went frequently to see the old people in the 

 x'illage. (Japi'a, Ipisi'a). 



AN EVIL BEING CONCEIVES A PASSION FOR A WOMAN AND SUBSEQUENTLY 



KILLS HER. 



Ki2. A Dâru woman named Wâsido, while in the act of climbing up a iie/rr tree to 

 get the fruit, was seen by a young maie dôoro (spii-it) with her skirt in disorder. He was seized with 

 a passion for her, and when she came down, he caught hold of her and had confection with 

 her. Afterwards he warned her saying, „You go back you (your) place, you no speak nobody, 

 one ölwro been do that thing." Wâsido returned home and gave her two children the fruit. Her 

 hu.sband was out on the reefs fishing. 



At night the .same âùoro came underneath the house where Wâsido lived and hearing ' 

 her voice thought that she was telling the others what he had done. He became furious, thinking 

 to himself, „My God, I been speak you, you no teil no man." 



Another night the öboro returned with his bow and arrows meaning to kill W'asldo. 

 But she saw him and kept watch all night so that he could not steal upon her. In the morning 

 she called her daughter, and they went to the beach, where she picked up two empty white 

 Shells. She made holes in the Shells and tied them over her eye-balls. .,You look my eye,'' 

 she said to the gid, „he stop good?" „Yes, mother," the girl said, „that all same proper eye 

 belong you, that two shell." In the night Wâsido, hefore going to sleep, fastened the Shells 

 over her eyes, and the dboro who came stealing into her house saw them and thoui;ht that the 

 woman was awake. So he crept back, thinking to himself, „That woman no sleep, he 

 open him eye." 



The next daj', when Wâsido was away in her garden, the same ôôoro appeared in the 

 shape of a man and went into her house. He found Wäsido's two children and asked them, 

 „Where mother belong you two fellow?" „Oh he been go garden." „Night-time, mother belong 

 you what name (what kind of a thing) he make fast?" ,,He make fast two shell." „W'here 

 mother he leave him?" The girls showed them to the öboro, and he took them away with him. 

 When Wâsido returned, she asked the two girls, „.'Xny man no been come see you two fellow?" 

 N:o 1, 



