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it. The bellj' was ripped open, and the people found the boy's head and body which they placed 

 on a mat and subsequently buried, but the hiwai-abére was eut in pièces and burnt in the fire. 

 (Gibùma, Mawåta). 



A. The tide washed up an ämiihe from the Oriömu to Dåru, and there it was found by some 

 boys. They raced to catch it, and one of them brought it to his mother asking her to cook it, but she 

 ate it and gave him a bad åmuhe instead. He wept and could not be comforted, and in the night he 

 ■was carried off by a hhvai-abére or oriogoniho (ef. no. 135) who had heard him crying. The beast was 

 Seen by an oid woman named Wäsido. but she thought that it was the boy's mother who look him 

 away somewhere. The monster killed and devoured the boy. In the morning the parents after a long 

 search were told by Wäsido what she had seen. The oriogoniho was killed and burnt in the fire, and 

 the remains of the boy were buried except his skull which his parents kept hanging round their 

 necks in turn. 



Since that time it is a rule among the people that the parents may not take from their children 

 anything which the latter have come in possession of. (Säibu, Mawåta). 



B. The same incident with the fruit. The boy was carried away by an ôriogori/ho which had 

 white hair, and they were seen by the old woman Wäsido who did not know what kind of a being it 

 was. The boy was eaten by the beast. The next day the people found the lair of the oriogoniho in a hole 

 in a large tree, and the monster was killed and burnt in the fire. (Médi, the elder, Mawäta). 



C. The mother Hed to the boy that his novai (at Mawäta ännihé) had burnt up in the fire. 

 The boy was seized and devoured by an origoniso, and the incident was seen by an old woman who 

 told it to the boy's parents. The lair of the origoniso was discovered in the ground, whereupon the 

 beast was killed and burnt. The people carried the remains of the boy home and buried ihem. 

 (Oburo, låsa). 



D. The father roasted and ate his son's novai. The boy wept, but the next day his father brought 

 him a basketful of the fruit, which the boy ate. In the night the boy was taken by an origoniso who 

 had heard him crying, and the beast ate him except the head, hands, and feet. ^* The next day the beast 

 was found underneath the house and shot dead. His head was eut off, and the body was thrown into 

 the water. (Japfa, Ipisia). 



E. The weeping boy was carried away by a wario (large hawk). Its nest was found in a 

 tree, but the people dared not climb up. The bones of the boy were found on the ground underneath. 

 In the night the spirit of the boy came to his mother and said, „Mother, you no go close that tree. 

 That pigeon (bird) he bad, by-and-by you go close to, he kill you." However, under the cover of 

 darkness, the father and mother crept up to the tree, gathered together the bones of their son, and 

 returned without being detected, for the hawk was sleeping in its nest. The next day the two warned the 

 people not to go near the tree, and the path which lead thither was blocked up wiih a tree. 

 (Nätai, Ipisia). 



F. The Wäboda children were swimming in the water, and one boy found a növai which 

 his mother ate. The boy cried till late in the night, and his mother thought, „No good I been kaikai 

 that fruit belong boy." Next morning she went to the bush with three baskets to fetch riovai fruit. 

 She found a Jiövai tree and after Alling one of her baskets wfth fruit she left it hanging on a branch. 

 A little further on she found another tree and filled another basket. Then she she went to a third novai 



Tom. XLVII. 



