248 Gunnar Landtman. 



„Yes, one man been come." „What name (what) that man he saj'?" „No, him he come ask 

 that two Shell." „You two been show him?" „Yes, me been show him, him he talce, gu/' 



In the night the öboro came into the house with a large basket, into which he first put the two 

 girls and then VVåsido, and carried them avvay into the bush. There he climbed the same 

 neh-e tree, in which he had seen Wasido the first time. and hung the basket on a hranch. 



The öboro summoned some friends of his, and asked them to eut a long „bush-rope" 

 and tie one end of it to the top of the tree. When they had done this, they all hauled at the other 

 end of the rope, and at last the tree broke and feil, and the woman and children uere crushed 

 to death. The öboro all sat dovvn and ate the three dead hodies. 



Wâsido's hushand returned from the reef and asked for his wife. The people said, „Oh, 

 woman belong you, all time we ask him come sleep along me fellow, no good he sleep along 

 empty house. He no come. One öboro he come humbug every night, I think he kill woman 

 belong you." The man found the bones under the neére tree and wailed for his wife. He said 

 to the people, „Oh, that dhoro been kill that \\'oman." (Gibüma, Mawâta). 



TALES OF WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN CARRIED AWAY BY MYTHICAL BEINGS 



(no. Iö3 — lö7; ef. Index, Mythical Beings). 



163. The women of the Månibado people, who live on the right bank of the Binatûri, 

 uged to go to Méreovéra on the coast, to catch shell-fish while the men were hunting pig and 

 kangaroo in the bush. Inside a large tree not far from the coast there lived a certain „story- 

 man", Glepädo b\' name. When he wanted to come out from his dwelling he blew at the tree, 

 and it opened. He came out and blew again, and the tree closed up. At night Glepädo used 

 to shoot sting-ray, king-fish, and other kinds of fish, which he eut up and left to dry in the sun. 

 He had no fire and thereforc ate them law. In the morning he returned to his home, blew the 

 door open, and went into the tree, which he closed behind him. 



Once when the Mânibâdo v\'omen came to the beach, they found Glepddo's fish drying 

 in the sun. „Who been put him that fish?" they wondered, „somebody been put him — you 

 me (we) leave him, you me no take him." They left the fish there and went on with their 

 work. But even after their return home they kept on wondering among themselves, „Who been 

 leave that fish outside, put along .sun? He no got no fire." „You no been see no man?" the 

 Månibado men asked them. „No, me fellow been see fish, that's all, me no been see no man." 

 Next time when the women went to the shore, thei-e were no fish, for Glepâdo had eaten them 

 in the meantime. The various occupations of the people went on in the same way fiom day 

 to day (nbbrev.). 



Among the Mânibado women there was a beautiful girl, who once went to catch fi.sh 

 some distance away from the others. In the evening she called out to them, and Glepâdo, 

 deceiving her, answered, „Me fellow hère." She thought that it was some other girl. Glepâdo 

 came, and she saw what large ears he had. When he went to sleep he used the one ear to lie 

 upon and the other to cover himself with, if it was cold. -^ Glep;ido caught hold of the girl and 

 carried her inio his tree, which opened of it.self when he ble^v at it. He put her down and closed 



Tom. XLVIJ. 



