Tlw Fdlk-TaUs of I lie Kiwai Pnftiiaiis. 251 



iip 111 1(11 lieneatli tlie giduiiil, and al her lequest he camc. Then lliu men all shot their arrows 

 al him and killed him, and Ihcy cul olï his head and burned his bndy in Ihc tire. (Biri, Ipisia). 



167. A Sagéro man and his wife were inaUing sago in the bush, and in the meantime 

 liieir house caught lire and was burnl dowii. They built a small house instead and livad in il. 

 Aller a time the woman becanie pregnanl and gave birlh lo a bov, and during thal time Ihe man 

 slepl underneath the house, as Ihere was no olher building. Nobody eise li\ed in Ihat place, and 

 Ihe man cooked tbod for his wile. When slie had recovere'-i, lu wenl back lo live wilh lier in 

 the iiouse. One day they found a cassowary whicii had broken ils leg, and the man killed the 

 bii'd. While they were cookinj;- the ment an origoniso (ef. no. 135) appeared, attracted by the 

 smell. The monster killed and ate the man and carried off ihe woinan and bo}- lo his ov\-n place, 

 where they li\'ed together. When the boy grew up, his mother lold him of his father's fåle. The 

 bo\- used to go out hunling in the hush and give all the game he killed lo the origoniso. At last 

 the monster was choked to death bj' a cuscus slicking in his Ihroal. The boy left the place to 

 look for some olher people, and when he found some he and his molher went to live wilh Ihem. 

 (Epére, Ipisia). 



AN EVIL BEING APPEARS AT AN APPOINTMENT INSTEAD OF THE RIGHT PERSON. 



168. Une day the Daru people arranged to go fishing early on the morrow-. Al sunset 

 a woman went outside the house, where a friend of h.rs lived, and called out lo her, „To-morrow 

 you me go catch fish," and the olher woman replied, „You me go." The Iwo women were 

 overheard by a liUi<ai-abérc (ef. no. 148). 



In Ihe night, when the moon was shining, the hranii-abére appeared outside the same 

 house and called to the woman, „Ärao (friend), you come quick! I go first time, you come be- 

 hind." The liin'ai-abére went on ahcad, and the woman, who thought thal il was her friend, 

 jumped up, look her fish-lrap, and rnn aftei- her. The h/wai-abi'rc led the wa\- oui on lo the 

 beach; „Anw," she cried, „you come quick, people he been go finish;" and the woman hastfened 

 after her. In order not lo be found out the hiwai-abi'rc walkcd al a quick pace and as she wenl 

 picked up an old fish-trap which somebody had Ihrown away. When they arrived al the fishing 

 place, the woman said to ber, „Arao, no people herc." „You me (we) no can catch fish?" the 

 hlivai-abi're replied, „You me stow away, come catch plenly fish, no good plenty man he come." 

 She urged the woman lo go inlo the water, „More betler you go catch him fish, I no can go 

 along water, I got sick, by and by me too cold." The evil woman did not want to go inlo Ihe 

 water herself, so she deceived her companion. The girl waded out and caught fish, which she 

 threvv on shore, and the hiivai-abére swallowed them up. She said to the girl, „You catch him 

 plenty fish, Ihrovv him on shore, I kill him here, keep him," but she devoured them all. Al 

 last the girl became suspicious, Ihinking to herself, I no hear he hammer him thal fish." The 

 nexl time she Ihrew a fish on shore, she found out what the liiivai-aberc v\-as doing: „Oh, he 

 (she) swallow him down. He no been put no fish along rope. That (is a) devil-woman. No 

 good I (lake) fright. I catch him plenl\- fish, make him belly full. That time I run, he no can 

 run quick, belly he full." 

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