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Pösopdsi of stealing his fire. Slie told him hovv she had obtained hers, and finally the monster 

 went awa}'. Kinu and his boy toolv Posipösi with them to Jögo. (Menégi, Mawäta). 



230. A certain Tüdo islander used to cohabit with a femaie turtle which became pregnant. 

 Now and again the turtle used to go for a swim in the water but it ahvays returned to the same 

 place. The baby could be heard whistling in the turtle"s belly. The father made a small house 

 on the beach for the animal, and there the child, a boy, was bom. When the turtle 

 wanted to get out of the hut, it used to beat the door with one of its flippers, and then the man 

 let her out. The boy grevv up, eut his teeth and began to talk. Then the father said, „You no 

 talk, by and by plenty man he hear you." He used to bring food to his boy. One day the man 

 arranged a great feast for the people at which he intended to shov\' thern his boy. *= He was 

 greatly excited, and neither his wife nor anybody eise knew why the great feast was held. At 

 length he brought his boy to view, and the people all exclaimed, „Ah, good fellow pickaninny ! 

 good boy!" The father told the people hovv his boy had been born. (Nàtai, Ipisia). 



231. At .Säreéve, not far from Güruru, there lived two brothers, Nügu and Gini, with 

 their mother whose name was Pini. The men spent their time hunting in the bush and working 

 in their garden. Neither of them was married, and once Nügu the elder brother said, „Mother, 

 I want woman." „He got no people here," replied the mother, ,.Where you getwoman.' I walk 

 about along bush, I no look village." 



One day the two brothers caught two little femaie pigs alive and brought them home. 

 There they kept them shut up within a fence. After a time the mother asked them to marry 

 the two pigs, and they did so and arranged a feast. The two men and pigs copulated „like dögs" 

 and slept on the same mat. In the morning the man said, „Me two got woman ; me no more 

 go look round fish, me go work along garden." AU four of them went to work, the two men 

 and the two pigs, The latter helped their husbands to work by rooting up the garden, and in 

 the evening they ail returned home. After a time the mother died. A little later the one pig 

 bore a boy and the other a girl, and they were no pigs but men. When they had grown up 

 the two married. On seeing their children married the two men said, „My God, pickaninny 

 helong you me (us) he married good, he proper man. He got no people here, thafs why me 

 been take that pig-woman. This time he got people; what name (why) you me stop?" The 

 two men feit ashamed and one night ran away. They threw off their human skins and became 

 pigs. Since that time there are many pigs in the bush. When we eat pig we are in fact eating 

 human flesh, said the narrator. (Giblima, Mawäta). 



C. LOVE BETWEEN TWO MEN (ef. Index, Sexual Life). 



232. At Gebäro there lived a very handsome boy, and at Pedéa there lived another boy 

 who was also very good-looking but with a face like a woman's. The Gebäro boy liked the 

 Pedéa boy very much and thought to himself, „More better I take fashion belong woman." He 



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