Till' Folk-Tales of Ihc Aiiuai Pupituns. 565 



wind, p. 389; niagic „medicines" used t'or Controlling the weather, p. v343; what thunder 

 and lightning are, p. 279, no. 279 C, p. 487, no. 454 B, C, 457; returning spirits of the 

 dead disappear in a gust of wind, p. 389. 



Mission, the Christian, no. 2ö9, p. 4œ, 402. 



Murder, see Death, Revenge, Spirits of the dead. War. 



Musical instruments, see Implements and objects. 



Mythical beings and animais, p. 13, no. 102 — 193: appear to people in dreanis, see Dreams; ap- 

 pear in the shape of animais, pass or change into animais, p. 186, no. 105, 106, 108, 

 113, 118, 148, p. 2.36, no. 158, 268, 287, 288; in the shape of animais make signs to 

 people, p. '")6, no. 105, 116, 123, 127, no. 256, p. 502; auguring from such signs, no. 106; 

 appear in the shape of inanimate things, p. 187, 235; pass into people, no. 287; people 

 transformed into, no. 131, 157; associate with people, no. 90, 120, 358; appear to certain 

 individuals whom they are helping, no. 103. 104, 105; guardian .spirits, no. 90, 91; impart 

 useful knowledge to people, no. 121, 122, 341; pre.sent things to people, no. 104, 105, 106; 

 rites pertbrmed to, no. 58, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 110, 113. 122; men who marry fe- 

 male mythical beings or are carried avvay by them, no. 139. 148, 149, 150, 158 — 161, 

 288; mythical beings or animais who marry women or carry them away, no. 146, 162 

 — 167, 168 C, 431, 4.33; the being which was killed, no. 113; confuse people's senses, p. 

 235; hear things a long way oft p. 225, 245; sorcerers rank among malevolent beings, p. 

 258, no. 174 — 184; people associated by their neighhours with the mythical being living 

 in their village, no. 115; mythical animais no. 186-192, 431—434, 459 — 161; the animal 

 which defended the people and brought food to them, no. 2, p. 225. List of certain 

 mythical beings and animais (for those mentioned in one tale only ef. the headings of the 

 tales no. 102-193, ef. also p. 192); the atéraro or derari (ferocious lizard), no. 2, 6 A, 

 pp. 86 sq., no. 121, 147 B, 171, 256, p. 341, .342. no. 472; the bisare, bihare, or ebihare 

 (nmstly living in the sea), p. 68, no. 131, p. 88, 99, no. 60 B, p. 192, no. 114 A, 117, 

 129, 131, 224, p. .362, no. 301; the busérebusére or behére-behére (mythical girls), p. 192, 

 no. 133, 1,59, 160, no. 201, 220. 414 C; the dogai or dogai-orobo (evil female beings), no. 

 118, 148 A; Erumia of Mawåta (a jelly-tish), no. 37, 115; the itengena or same (living 

 in trees and creeks), no. 9 C, p. 187. 192, no. 105, 106, 113 A, 123, 124, 126, 129, 263 

 B, 267, p. 429, no. 414 C, p. 502; the glrivûro (living in the sea), no. J31, 192; the 

 hiivai-abére (wicked female beings), no. 118, 120, 147 A, 148—15.3, 168, 252, no. 414 B, 

 no. 459 A, 471; Måigidnlm (a snake-man), no. \V-)^ 261 .A, 414: the mdmagårena (gene- 

 ral name of a group of beings), no. 01 C, p. 192, no. 113, 147 B; the ôboûbi (living in 

 the sea), p. 192, no, 120, 132, 158, 164, 105, 288, 328, p. 487, no. 454 D; the origoniso; 

 ôriogorûlio or sugarna (wild beast or man), no. 120 B, 135—144, 147, 157, 163, 167 

 168 A, 171, p. 258, no. 178, 229, 252 A — D, p. 341, no. 471 A; oVoraVor« (general name 

 of a group of beings), p, 67, 192, no. 108, 114 A, 115, 116, 119, 161, 163 A, 168 C, 

 178, 190, 201, 291; miscellaneous beings, no. 172 A, 173, 412. Destruction of the bodies 

 of evil beings which have been killed, see Burial; old hågs, see Women; see also Fabu- 

 lous men and women, Spirits of the dead. 



Nâkare, a mountain in Dfbiri, no. 2. 



N:o I. 



