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making the attempt they ascertain that the being is actually sleeping, 78, 102, 147 A, 172, 365, 

 368 A. 



^^ Circumstances connected with' white people, 84, 85. 



s* A person is living together with a mythical being who has enormous ears; after some 

 time the ears of the former also begin to assume the same size, 135, 163. 



^5 Some person who lives alone calls out at random to anyone who might be vvithin 

 hearing distance to come to him, 102, 159, 170, 365, 477. 



^* A man abuses a gra.ss skiit helonging to a woman; through wearing the skirt she 

 becomes pregnant, 195, 260. 



^^ A person is disguised in a skin full of bad sores; in reality he is healthy and handsome, 

 201, 456. 



^''People hoa.st to their friends that they have been out fighting or hunting; this is disco. 

 vered to be mere lying, 471, 478. 



^' A person or being has been left on the top of a tree; he scrapes a passage insida the 

 trunk right down to the ground trying thus to escape, 259, 440, 454 A. 



•"•A man causes another man's hands to get jammed up in the cleft of a tree; the latter 

 is then badly treated, 30, 227, 260. 



*' A mysterious thing approaches a man in the water and is speared by him, 262, 283, 286. 



82 Incidents with wicked old hågs, 154, 155, 156, 410, 411. 



•^^A man and his wife wishing to get rid of their little child let it drift away on a rivei-, 

 253, 454. 



«*A boy sees a giri nude and begins to cry for a red thing, 454, 468. 



65 People who prétend to be ill tie a string tightly round one of their thighs, 55, 464. 



66 A man and his wife visit another tribe; the woman is outraged by the men of the 

 tribe, .364, 470. 



6' Young girls with round breasts are greatly preferred to older women, 61, 62, 340, 454 D. 

 6ä A man who lives, or has been clo.sed up, inside the trunk of a tree, is brought out by 

 some woman, 45, 259. 



69 Girls are transformed into ant-hills, 47 A, 378 B. 



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