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and went back to their house. After a while the big brother said, „Where you me go? People 

 no want you me (us)." He pondered the matter and then said, „You me go inside stone/' 



They found a hole underneath a larg; ston i and made two beds there. The big brother 

 brought part of the trunk of an fVi-palm into the hole, and they began to eat the pith. Their 

 skin changed into that of a pig, and after a while they ceased to be men and were pigs. Säi 

 asked his little brother, „You look me; 1 stand up all same pig?" „My god," Ûtshâe cried, „you 

 all same proper pig." He asked his brother, „What's vvay me? Me all same pig too'" „You 

 all same pig, you all same proper pig." The two brothers went into the bush and lived there in 

 a grass lair. They said to each other, „That time people take dog, come kill pig, you me (we) 

 eut (gore) him altogether people." 



The Gi'ribüru people dränk gånioda and performed the rite called karéa (ef. p. 14), saying 

 to each other, „To morrow j'ou me (we) go kill pig." In tiie morning they went to the bush, 

 but only found kangaroo and no pig. At last some men saw the two brothers, who were pigs, 

 and all shot their arrows at them. The two pigs dodged the arrows and ran after the people, 

 some of whom escaped up trees, while others were killed. The survi\-ors returned to the village 

 and said to the women and children, „My God, pig he eut him plenty people belong me." The 

 people said, „No good you me go make garden, you me go kil! that pig, too much people that 

 pig he been eut him." The men armed themselves and went to the bush, and when they found 

 the two pigs they began to shoot at them. But- the pigs evaded the arrows and ran at their assail- 

 ants. Some of the people took refuge in the trees while the others were killed. Those who 

 escaped went home and told the people in the village, „My god, me people come short now 

 (become fevv in number), close up pig he finish all people." The men dränk gåmoda and per- 

 formed the karéa rite, saying to each other, „Oh, you me (we) go kill him to-morrow!" On the 

 morrow the nun went to the bush and found the pigs there. AU shot th'iir arrows at them but 

 the beasts eluded every shot and mangled all the people fearfuUy. One man only escaped and 

 told those remaining in the village, „People no come back, that two pig he finish him." All the 

 survivors fied from Gi'ribûru and settled down at Djibu, and Giribiiru has been deserte'd ever 

 since. (Gibüma, Mawäta). 



A. Kk Anotogo, on the olher side of Màsingâra, there lived two brothers named Säi and Gu ni. 

 They used to hunt In the bush. One night, when the elder bro'.her, Sal, was alone in the bush, he 

 found an i'lerari in a ddiii-ivtQ and marked the place with an arrow stuck in the ground. The next 

 day the clerari was killed by the two brothers. They eut up the meat and on arriving hotne put it in 

 a pile and slept close to it in ihe night. The i'tcian appeared to them in a dream and told them to 

 leave their home and settle down at Aripdra, and they did so. They brought the meat with them, 

 and in the night the Ara;/ appeared again and taught them mâuamo, the magic by which the bushmcn 

 kill people. They were told to eat a little of a plant called mdnabåba which would make them „cranky", 

 and while they were in that State the sorcery was to be performed by means of a human bone. This 

 is the origin of the bushmcn's art of iiiänaino. (Gibüma, Mawàta). 



B. The Kilru people, living inland of Djibu, once found an clerari in a tree, which they 

 killed. When the beast was brought home and eut up the young men were sent to sleep close to the 

 meat. In the night each one of them was taught by the ctcrari the use of a particular „medicine" for 

 killing people. One of them was told Ihc use of a plant called sirivdre, while the „medicine" of the 

 others was a cassowary bone, a pig's tusk, and a bird-of-paradise feather. (Gibüma, Mawdta), 



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