262 Gunnar Landtman. 



The same night a nian named Dovio, vvliu was not onc of the sorcerers, went out huntinj;, 

 and when he saw the givdri-peoph he began to shoot at tliem, killing a number. Then he ran 

 home and went into his house to sleep. The surviving ghxiri-mtn brooded revenge upon Do\'io 

 and said, „A'Iore better I make him givdri, kill him." 



Dovi'o's sister was married to one of the givåri-mew. and he had taught her the art. One 

 day she came to her brother and warned him saying, „Dovio, all givåri-ma.n been speak. 'No 

 good you been shoot him plenty man, more better make him givdri.''' Dovio knew that trouble 

 was tbrthcoming, and in order to recognize his sister, when the ^w«r(-people were dancing, he 

 said to her, „You put him white leaf belong sag:da (croton), make mark, I savy you. Let him 

 plenty man and woman dance first, you dance behind." The woman went home and lied to 

 her husband as to where she had been. 



The following night the ^nwt people again held a dance, and Dovio's sister wore a white 

 leaf, so that her brother should recognize her. Dovio came to the place, carrying his bow and 

 arrows, and when he saw his sister, he touched her with a long rod from his hiding-place. Pre- 

 tending to withdraw for a natural want she joined her brother,^* and he said to her, „More better 

 you go along house, run away. Suppose you make dance I shoot you." When she had gone, 

 Dovio shot her husband and after him many other givdri-mQu. Again the sur\i\'ors cried out 

 for revenge. 



On returning home Dovio told his two vvives to watch över him while he was sleeping. 

 But after a while the women too feil asleep. One of the givdri-n\Qn had followed Dovio, and 

 finding him and his wives asleep he applied some „poison" to the end of a long stick and touched 

 Dovio with it. Dovio got up and said to his vvives, „Oh, no good you sleep! I think some man 

 been come, give givdri along me." After a while Dovio began to shiver with cold, and then he 

 knew^ what had happened. His wives tried to bleed him, but no blood came, and Dovio died. 

 (Du.iba, Oromosapiia). 



181. The Kubiia people were once calcliing lish in a creek by means of a kind of Irap 

 called pardnc.^) When the traps had been li.\ed up, the people built a small hut on .shore to spend 

 the night in, while waiting for the fish to come. A givâri-ma.n was wandering about the same 

 night with some vvicked design on hand, and on herring him the people shut themselves up in 

 the hut, nobody venturing outside. The givdri-man went into the creek meaning to swim across, 

 but the tide was too strong, and he was dragged into a pardnc, feather ornaments and all, and 

 there he was drowned. 



In the night the people lighted their torches and went to examine the traps, and some 

 of them said, „I got plenty fish inside my par due." Looking into his pardne another man exclaimed, 

 „1 say,'2what's that inside pardne? alligator?" He raised his torch and noticing the headdress 

 of the drowned man he exclaimed, „Oh, I thirik he man!" The other people were summoned. 



') A conical l)asket like the i;onia l)Ut verv long. A few pardne are attaclied lo [nile.s iu a creek with 

 the iiioiith tuineil upstreain, and the space between tlieni is blocked with a provisiona! dam. The curreiit of 

 the falling tide is so strong, that the fish are swept into the narrow bottom of the panine and kept there by 

 the pressure of the water. 



'J'oni. XLVII. 



