The Folk-Talcs of llie Krwai Papua iis. 291 



came to him and offered to help him. He asi<ed the Wäboda man to put bis hands into the 

 chink of the tree, and when the latter did this, he suddenly snatched away the axe so that the 

 tree closed up, jamming the hands of the Wäboda man.*" Than he caught the latter's wife, 

 outraged her, and ran away. The Wäboda man was released by liis wife, he was furiously 

 angrj' with her, but the Maipåni fellow had escaped. (Tämetåme, Ipisia). 



B. SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH ANIMALS 



(no. 228—231; ef Index, Sexual Life). 



228. A certain unmarried man once called his dog, which was a female, and had 

 connection with it in the bush. This was repeated every day for some time. The dog became 

 pregnant, and the man one day noticing this, put it in a basket which he threw on to the water. 

 The tide carried the basket along and washed it ashore at another place. 



There the dog dug a hole in the sand and made a bed tn lie upon. After a time a boy 

 was bom, and the dog thought, „That pickaninnj' he no dog, he man." The bo}^ grew up quickly 

 and was fed by the dog vvho stole food for him from the people. Once it brought him a bow 

 and arrows, and he said, „Mother, what name (what is) that fellow.'" „He bow and arrow, you 

 shoot him fish," said the dog. 



One day a giri Walking along noticed the boy and thought, ..\\'ho belong that boy? 

 What boy he stop here?" She lay down in hiding, and when the boy came close to her, she 

 got up and caught him by the arm. „Oh, boy, we married," she cried and took him to her 

 house. Her parents called out, „Héy! you gir), where you find him that boy?" „Oh, mother, 

 father, me find him out.side, he stop along sand-beach." They asked the boy, „Who mother, 

 father belong you?" and he said, „Me no proper man, me belong dog. Dog my mother; no 

 father he stop, no got father." The girl's father said, „You right, you go sing out mother." 

 The dog was fetched, and the girl said, „\'ou come sleep inside house, bed belong you here." 

 The boy and girl slept on the same bed and were married, and the dog lived in the same house. 

 (Kåku, Ipisia). 



A. A man pretended to go oui in search of pigs but instead he shot off all his arrows at 

 the root of a tree and broke off all the shafts. Then he called his female dog, lifted up its hind legs, 

 and had connection with the animal. He brought home the shafts of the arrows and showed them to 

 his two wives saying, „I been shoot big pig, he run away. ^* I got one dog that's all. he no can 

 catch pig." After he had done the same thing repeatedly the dog became pregnant. One day the two 

 women followed him and found out everything. When the dog came home, they Struck il with their 

 digging sticks, and the animal ran on to the beach and dug itself a hole there to stay in. A boy was 

 horn, and the dog stole food for him, and låter on it gave him a bow and arrows. The boy shot 

 some fish and brought them to the dog asking it, „Mother, that kaikai?" and the dog instructed him.* 

 One day the boy was found by his father who brought him and the dog home and showed them to 

 the people. The girls of that place were all in love with the boy and wanted him to marry them, 

 although their parents said, „No proper mother belong that boy, mother he dog." (Saküma, Ipisia). 



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