The Folk-Tnlf^ o/ llic Kiirai Papuan f. 551 



*^"People come across bones, thatchins of roofs, or intestines of animais, vvhich circumstance 

 indicates that some other individuals live in their neigbourhood, the existence of whom they have 

 not known, ,15, 15 A, 196, 464. 



1' People fall into a swoon at the sight of fire for the Hrst tinie, or vvhen eating food to 

 vvhich they are unaccustomed, or upon encountering a ghost, etc, 14, 15 B, 21, 43, 60 A, 75, 111, 

 201, 263, 272, 273, 468. 



^* A certain individual happens to vvitness some incident of vvhich the people are ignorant ; 

 this generally occurs vvhen, under the pretext of a natural want, he has gone apart from the rest 

 of his fellows, 22 (2 différent instances), 25, 44 (2 différent instances), 45, 57, 180, 235, 425, 432. 



*^ Shipwrecked people run the risk of being slain by those who find them, 153 B, 307—311. 



1^ A Dush grows on the head of certain people and animais, 102, 123, 145, 459. 



l'A woman tries to catch a certain fish; it passes into her vulva, 23, 199, 438. 



18 A man gives avvay his wife's share in a fish which she has caught; ihis circumstance 

 infuriates her, 23, 236, 239. 



i^ People travel on top of a bending tree, or are lifted up into the air by a tree, 22 A, 

 24, p. 118 E (2 différent instances), 62, 149, 154, 414 B, 462. 



2" A person's reflection in the vvater is taken to be himself in the flesh, 24, p. 1 18 E, no. 453. 



2' A certain pose is described which characterizes the „bushmen", 102 (othei instances 

 vvere related in the versions of certain taies, but have been omitted in the abbreviated texts). 



-2 A person is in the act of removing vermin from the head of a friend; meanwhile the 

 latter invariably falls asleep, 102, 223, 368 A. 



23 People flee from someone pursuing them ; in order lo put themselves beyond the reach 

 of their pursuer they build a house on very tall posts, or take refuge in a tree, 102, 135, 154, 

 163, 172, 367, 459, 459 A. 



^* People are beset by an enemy in some place of refuge; in order to appease their pursuer 

 they throw down an animal or chiki to the latter, 102, 135, 163. 



-5 Certain beings who are provided vvith enormous ears use one of them as a mat and 

 Cover themselves with the other when sleeping 135, 145, 163. 



-*The famous waîer-hole in Boigu, 37, 40 B, p. 117, no. 495. 



^' A garden grows up from a man's semen, 43, 44. 



^8 A certain drum vvhen being beaten calls out some person's name, 22, 56 E, pp. 117 

 C and 118 D. 



-' Certain wild beings vvhich devour the bodies of their victims however leave the bones, 

 the hands, feet, and heads intact, 137, 252 D. 



'" A flame is constantly burning in the hand of a certain person; trom this flame the 

 people obtain fire, 44, 52, 60, 274, 276 A. 



^1 A person is killed in a garden; various plants grow up from his body, 44, p. 118 F, 

 no. 450. 



ää Mythical heroes, or parts of their bodies, are subséquent to death transformed into stones, 

 44, 54, 60. 



^*Reefs and sandbanks have been formed from human bodies, or parts of such, vvhich 

 have been thrown into the sea, 44 J, 53, 60, 459. 



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