Ihr lùilk'lalrs it f I liv Kiîvai l'a/mam. 263 



and thuy opened the trap, cauyhL liuld f>f tlic dcad man, and dragged him on shore. They concluded 

 that he was a givâri-msin and wondered, „VVhat for he been come make 'puripuri' (sorcery)?" 

 One of them said, „You no dig him along ground, you chuck him away aiong vvater, he no 

 good man." And he was thrown into the creek, and the water floated him away. The people 

 did not pity him, for he had dnne them all sorts of harm. .'\nd they kept the matter secret from 

 their friends. 



One night the dead body was washed ashore, and a Kubira woman who vvent out with 

 a lighted torch found it. She called the men, and when they recognized the body the}' threw it 

 back into the water. (Nâtai, Ipisia). 



A. The same story is told in ls\o shorter versions also. (^Mdnu and Epore, Ipisia). 



182. Long ago a givåri-ma.n dug a hole in the beach not far from Idsa, and used to 

 hide there at times, frightening the people with his savage roar. One day when entering the 

 hole he was seen by another man, who went and eut down a tree with which he plugged the 

 opening. After a while the tide was coming in, and the gii'nri-m&n wanted to get out of his 

 hole, but found the entrance blocked. When the whole place was tlooded, the man went there in 

 liis canoë and puUed out the tree, and the givitri-man was drowned. His friends waited for him 

 in \-ain, and on .searching for him the>' found his body in the hole in tlie beach. (Manu. Ipisîa). 



1S3. In former times a Kiwai man named Do\io and his wife were one night harassed 

 hy a numher of i,'7V,/;-/-men, some of whom penetrated into their house while others were swarm- 

 ing underneath. .Seizing bis bow ani.1 arrows Da\i'o slKjt many of the intrLideis, and his wife 

 fmished them off with her digging stick. And they threw the dead bodies into the water which 

 caiiied them away. 



But the giväri-m&n used to come every night, and Dovi'o and his wife had to fight them 

 continuously. They could not sleep, and at last decided to go and live in a small hut in the 

 bush. One night when the ^/mri-people were dancing in the bush, elaboratêly decorated as usual, 

 some of them found Dovio's hut, and again they assembied round it in great numbers. Dovio 

 and his wife waited tili daylight, then they opened the door and attacked the ^/Var/-people as 

 before. All the dead were thrown into a creek. 



The next night again the ^«Wn'-people crowded round Dovio's house, preventing him and 

 his wife from .sleeping. Finally Dovio had to go and look for another place to live in, and he 

 found a hole in a large tree, which he thought a suitable dwelling, and he and the woman moved 

 here vvith all their things. The ^/i'a/'/-people did not find them in the hole. (Manu, Ipisia). 



THE SORCERER WHO FRIGHTENED THE CHILDREN AND WAS KILLED. 



184. When the narrator was a small boy, he and is companions of the same age were 



once piaying in the bush close to the village. They had a toy garden in which they prétende d 



to plant tare. One day they found a long creeper hanging down from a tree, and after cutting 



N:o 1. 



