342 THE EVOLUTION' OF THEOLOHV VTTT 



She related that she had dreamed that the late How [King] 

 appeared in her ami, with a countenance full of disappointment, 

 asked why there yet remained at Vavaoo so many evil-designing 

 ]n-rsons : for he declared that, since he had l>een at Bolotoo, his 

 spirit had heen disturbed 1 by die evil machinations of wicked 

 men conspiring against his son; hut he declared that "tho 

 youth" should not he molested nor his power shaken hy the 

 spirit of rehellion ; that he therefore came to her with a warning 

 voice to prevent sneh disastrous consequences (vol. i. p. 424). 



On inquiry it turned out that the charm of 

 fa Man had been performed on Finow's grave, with 

 the view of injuring his son, the reigning king, 

 and it is to be presumed that it was this sorcerer's 

 work which had " disturbed " Finow's spirit. The 

 Rev. Richard Taylor says in the work already 

 cited : "The account given of the witch of Kndor 

 agrees most remarkably with the witches of New 

 Zealand " (p. 45). 



The Tongans also believed in a mode of divin- 

 ation (essentially similar to the casting <,f' lots) 

 the twirling of a cocoanut. 



The object of inquiry ... is chiefly whether a sick person 

 will recover ; for this purpose the nut hoin^ placed on the 

 ground, a relation of the sick person determines thai, if the nut, 

 when again at rest, points to such a quarter, th> east for 

 example, that the sick man will recover; he then prays aloud 

 to the patron god of the family that he will he pleased to direct 

 the nut so that it may indicate the truth ; the nut hoing next 

 spun, the result is attended to with confidence, at least with a 

 full conviction that it will truly declare the intentions of tho 

 the time (vol. ii. p. 227). 



1 Compare : " Ami Samuel said unto Saul, Why hast thou di.< 

 quieted me .' " (1 Sam. xxviii. in.) 



