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thc liuu.sc aiid Ihought, ,.0h, ail sanie two e\'e belong man! Üh, he yot nose ! That (is) nn wooct 

 — man there he stand up. Oh, that givàri-m&n he look me leliow!" And he said to the others, 

 who weie sitting near him, „\'ou look! Üh, givdri-m&n, two e\e he stand up." The others 

 looked at the thing and said, ,.0h, ^/Wr/'-man he stand up." 



Anéga thought, „What's vvay (how) [ go fight, what's way I go shoot him?" Instuad 

 of seizing his bow and ariows he took a coconut-shell, which he lilled wilh li\e embers („he hot 

 one, ail same hot water"), and all of a sudden he flung the contents of the shell into the hole 

 through which the two eyes were peeping in. The eyes, nose, and face of the ^/W;7-man were 

 frightfully hurned, and he feil to the ground, and Ihe men rushed out and Hnished him off with 

 their stone clubs and digging sticks. Then they went back into the hou.se and continued their 

 meal. The great man placed the lishes on the llnnr and one of his relatives distributed them 

 among the people, for a great man may not ilo that himself. The dead man was left under the 

 house, and there he was found in the morning. „Oh, giväri-man, what's the matter?" asked the 

 people. „Well, fault belong him, what for he cnme, make givciri?'' the men said. (Kaku, Ipisia). 



1 7.S. One night when the Kiwai people were sitting indoors, a ^-^nv^^Z-man came IVom the 

 biisli wearing a mask, as is sometimes the wont of ihese men when bent on their wicked practi- 

 ccs. The people could hear his deep roar and wondered what it was, some of them thinking 

 that an oronirorti (ef. Introduction to no. 102) was there, and others that it was an oriogoniho 

 (ef. no. 13.")). But under the house there were two men with their bows and arrows, and seeing 

 the givuri-mar\ they said, „Oh that no oriogoniho. no oror/iiora, that (is a) giviiri-diibu." And 

 they drew their weapons and shot him. and he was left dead on the ground. In the morning 

 the man was found and the people said, „Oh, that givàri-dùbu, all time he been make fool you 

 me (us)." Removing the mask they recognized him and said, „Oh, he belong you fellow, he 

 givåri-m&n."' The kinsfolk of the dead man were ashamed and did not show fight. After the 

 givari-m&xx had been detected the people went to one after another of his relatives asking them, 

 „You got givdri? He been learn (teach) you?" But they all affirmed, „No, me no got givari. 

 He no been learn me — belong him." The dead givdri mavi?, grave was not in the burying 

 ground but in another place. (Tom, Mawäta). 



179. Once a g i v dr i -mdiW came underneath a house in the bush, where a certain Ki'wai 

 man lived alone with his wife and children; the wicked man wanted to spend the night there. 

 On opening the door, the man of the house savv who was there underneath, so he fetched his 

 bow and arrows and shot him, and his wife finished him off with a large pièce of wood. There 

 was a creek near by, and they threw the dead man into the water, and the current carried him 

 away. (Manu, Ipisia). 



180. Many people at Widrubi in Kiwai were familiär with givdri. One day one of them 

 said to the others, „Come on, you me (we) go along bush, make him dance. Vou take (bring) 

 givåri (the objects with which they perfnrmed sorcery) belong you." And the sorcerer-i and sor- 

 ceresses ail held a dance in the bush. 



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