l'hc Folk-Talcs of llic Khv.ii Ptifiuans. 443 



Bâira from his place heard the others go, and decided to go too. While the people were working 

 at the t'ence, he vvent and broke a sugar-cane to eat. He did not se.e a large snake lying close 

 to him and stepped right on its head, and the snake bit him. He ran to the people, and every- 

 body asked him, „What s the matter you corne?" He said, „Oh, snake he bite me. small snake," 

 he had not looked well in the dense scrub, that is why he thought it to be a small snake. And 

 the people said, „You go back along house," v\hich he did. He sat dovvn in his house, and 

 alter a while became „cranky", shouting out, ,.0h, what name (what kind of ai thing he come, 

 make me cranky.'" The women asked him, ,.What's the matter you come cranky?" - „Oh, 

 .snake he bite me." A woman named \V(iipa bled him, and when she had finished he feil asleep. 

 He died in the middle of the night. 



Mamiâsa told the people, „I been speak him dream belong me - no listen." 



B. NIQHTMARE (no. 391—398; cf. Index, Dreams). 



391. (By Bi'ri, Ipisi'a). On relating the dream he was still shuddering <nt the unpleasant 

 expérience he had had while dreaming. 



A large snake had been killed in the village (m the previous day, and Biri dreamt that 

 it was still alive and chased him away to a dark place where he had never been before. He 

 met some stränge people there whom he could not see, only hear. Very much frightencd he 

 wanted them to light a fire, but they would not do so. They brought him a great quantity of 

 some kind of food with an abominable smell and taste like excréments, and commanded him to 

 eat it. Bi'ri did not dare refuse, and x'omited again and again. At first he did so at „that place" 

 (where he belie\ed himself to ha\e been in the dream), and he continued to be sick in his house 

 after awakening. 



392. (By Kåku, Ipisia). He saw people without heads coming up from the watci-, and 

 the first of them was an Auti man who had died when Kâku was a boy. The man wanted to 

 tell Kâku sotr.ething, but the latter was so frightened that he woke up, and although it was a 

 long while till morning he sat up ail the rest of the night for fear of dreaming the same 

 thing again. 



393. (By Gaméa, Mawåta). A man named Kâin dreamt that another man named 

 Kesave was attacked by a wild pig which gored him in the body so that the intestines j-an out. 

 Kesâ\e came crawling to the place where the people were. The intestines were put back into 

 the belly, and the wound was closed up. Kesàve got up, but after a while his stomach began 

 to swell out more and nriore, till Kâiri became so frightened that he woke up. 



394. (By Menégi, Mawata). He was attacked by a „bushman" and tried to défend 

 himself, but neither arrow, spear, nor axe did the man any harm. Menégi got away into the 

 water. After a while the „bushman" came for him again in the shape of a pig. Just as he 

 was about to catch Menégi in the water, the latter woke up. 



K:n 1. 



