532 Gunnar Landtman. 



HOW A MAN THOUGHT THAT A WOMAN CALLED HIM A SORCERER AND KILLED HER. 



487. The läsa people once went to their gardens and left their children in charge ot an 

 old woman named Kavaréa who stayed at home. ^ She was sitting on her verandah occupied with 

 making a grass petticoat, and in order to frighten the children from going away she tcept on saying 

 to them, „Ei, you no go other place, by-and-by some givdri-dtibu (sorcerer) he corne!" Presently 

 a certain great man named Abàre came along and without seeing him Kavaréa repeated her 

 warning to the children, „You fellow look out, givâri-Mbu he corne!" Abàre heard her and 

 thoüght to himself, „Ei, who other man he corne? Me one man (I am alone), I no givâri-msin." 

 He was very angry, and after putting down his things in his house he took his bow and arrows 

 and shot Kavaréa from behind in her back. „Ei, what's the matter you wild along me?" she 

 called out, „I no rovv, I no speak along you, I no wild." „Oh, 'that time I come up, you sing 

 out along pickaninny, 'You come, one givari-xva.r\ he come!' That's why I think." The arrow 

 was protruding from Kavaréa's back, but Abàre left her and returned to his house. Somebody 

 went and called Kavaréa's people to come, saying what had happened. Everybody ran to the 

 village and and a fight ensued between Abâre's and Kavaréa's kinsfolk. After three days peace 

 was made, and both sides gave payment for the people they had killed. Kavaréa too had died. 



Since that occasion the people do not like to leave their children at home when they go 

 and work in their gardens. (Kàku, Ipisia). 



THE MAN WITHOUT FIREWOOD (no 488-490). 

 THE MÄN WHO WAS REFUSED FIREWOOD BY HIS WIFE ÄND WAS KILLED BY HER. 



488. A certain Bârasâro man named Màbere always depended upon his wife to bring 

 him firewood. At length the woman grew tired of this, and said to him, „I no give you more 

 fire, you go self eut firewood, you strong man." They were continually quarreiling over their 

 firewood, and the people said to the woman, „What's the matter you rovv ail time? You no sorry 

 man belong you? Altogether woman sorry man belong him." 



One day ail the people, Mâbere and his wife included, were catching fish and crabs in a 

 swamp, and on their return home Mabere went to the men's house, and his wife to the other 

 house. After a vvhile Mâbere appeared outside the house where his wife was and said, „Give me 

 fire." But the woman did not want to give him any, for she was angry on account of his 

 continuai neglect. Then he said again, „Give me fire." The woman threw out a long and 

 Sharp pièce of firewood and unintentionaily hit her husband in the eye. The wood penetrated 

 into his skull, and he feil down dead, but nobody saw him, for it was dark. The woman thought 

 that he had returned to the men's house with the pièce of firewood. 



When day broke and the birds becan to call, a man went out and found Mâbere. „You 

 sleep?" he said, „Måbere, Mâbere!" and he pushed him with his hand. On seeing the pièce of 

 wood which stuck in his eye he shrieked out, and the woman ail came out to look much frightened, 



Tom. XLVII. 



