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tree, but the other man ran home. „Where Mipåri'" tlie people asked him. „Oh, Mipâri been 

 go inside tree." „No good you ben run away," they said, „more better j'ou too go inside tree." 



The bushmen ail danced and Mipâri vvith them. When he was tired, he sat down and 

 ate, and afterwards danced again till daylight. Oh his leaving the bushmen gave him tbod, and 

 he returned home. He scolded his friend who had run away from him (abbrev.). The people 

 asked him, „What kind place you fellow make dance?" „Oh, ail same this house me fellow 

 dance." In the evening Mipâri went to the same place in the bush taking his wife with him. 

 But the woman was afraid and said to him, „More better you one man (alone) go inside that 

 tree, me go back." Mipâri held her hand, however, and when the bushmen opened the door, 

 they both went in. Mipâri said, „You look, this ail same house belong you me (us), that good 

 house." They were given food and slept in the house, but no dance was held there that night. 



On their return they were asked by the people where they had been. „Oh, me sleep 

 along tree," Mipâri said. The other women said to Mipâri's wife, „Oh, that's no house. What 

 waj' (how) you sleep?" „Oh, good fellow bed, all same bed belong \-ou." 



While Mipâri was working in his garden, a bushman came to him and said, „Mipâri, 

 sundown \'0U come, you sleep along my house." Mipâri said, „I conie inside, I no fright, me 

 feliow friend, that m\' house." He went there again with his wife, and they slept in tlie tree 

 till the morning. 



Mipâri was always the friend of the bushmen, but they never came to his hou.se, for 

 they were afraid. (Duâba, Ipisfa). 



THE ILL-FATED GIVARI-MAN, SORCERER (no 174-183). 



In the Kiwai folk-lore the g/7'ifn-M/i// (literally sorcery-man) more or less ranks aniong the male- 

 volent heings. In sonie cases he is one of ihe ordinary people, either in disguise or not, in others he 

 appears as a mysterious personality oulside the communily at large and harmfiil to the people. Some 

 of the tales of the giTâri-dùbn (for instance numbers 182 and 183) are very like those of the origonho 

 and other malignant beings, and \ve have to remember in this connection that the nomenclature as re- 

 gards some of the mythical beings is rather vague. 



As a ruie the gJTi'rri-di'ibu appears in the folk-tales as a person who may be killed as soon as 

 discovered, and very often he falls the viclim of his own machinations. 



174. Long ago there lived in Kfwai a wild boy named Bâdabâda. One night he was 

 sitting in a banana garden when a great givdri-vtx&w came into the garden to steal a bunch of 

 bananas which he needed for making sorcery. Bâdabâda had his bow and arrows with him and 

 shot twice at the man hitting him in both sides under the armpits, *' and the man feil dead. 

 Aithough a young boy, Bâdabâda was very stout-hearted, and he went up to the man to look at 

 him. „I think he dead altogether," he said, but he did not draw out the arrows. He then went 

 home to sleep. In the morning the ovvner of the garden came to examine his bananas, and as 

 he walked round, looking up at the ripe bunches, he stumbled o\'er the dead man's body. „Aah!" 

 he shrieked terrified, and called the other people. „Who been shoot that big man.'" everybody 

 was asking, „Who been eut that banana? That dead man been eut hiin? Who been shoot him?" 



Tom. XL Vi I. 



