656 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ PTH. ANN. 83 
ipalaoa and Pili. As she is in the form of an ala stone, she is cast 
out upon the trash; but her aunt has a dream, rescues her through a 
rainbow which guides her to the place, and wraps her in red tapa 
cloth. In 20 days she is a beautiful child. Until she is 20 she lives 
under a strict taboo; then, as she strings /ehwa blossoms in the woods, 
the elepaio bird comes in the form of a handsome man and carries 
her away in a fog to be the bride of Kalamaula, chief’s son of Kawai- 
hae. She asks for 30 days to consider it, and dreams each night of 
a handsome man, with whom she falls in love. She runs away and, 
accompanied by a rainbow, wanders in the uplands of Pahulumoa 
until Puuhue finds her and carries her home to his lord, the king of 
Kohala, Puuonale, who turns out to be the man of her dream. Her 
first child is the image Alelekinakina. 
5, KAPUAOKAOHELOAL 
When Ku and Hina are living at Waiakea, Hilo, they have two 
children, a boy called Hookaakaaikapakaakaua and a lovely girl 
named Kapuaokaoheloai. They are brought up apart and virgin, 
without being permitted to see each other, until one day the sister 
discovers the brother by the bright light that shines from his house, 
and outwits the attendants. The two are discovered and banished. 
Attendants of the king of Kuaihelani find the girl and, because she 
is so beautiful, carry her back with them to be the king’s wife. Her 
virginity is tested and she slips on the platform, is wounded in the 
virgin’s bathing pool, and slips on the bank getting out. Her guilt 
thus proved, she is about to be slain when a soothsayer reveals her 
high rank as the child of Hina, older sister to the king, and the king 
forgives and marries her. His daughter, Kapuaokaohelo, who is 
ministered to by birds, hearing Kapuaokaoheloai tell of her brother 
on Hawaii, falls in love with him and determines to go in search of 
him. When she reaches Punahoa harbor at Kumukahi, Hawaii, 
where she has been directed, she finds no handsome youth, for the boy 
has grown ill pining for his sister. In two days, however, he regains 
his youth and good looks, and the two are married. 
D. GHOST STORIES AND TALES OF MEN BROUGHT TO LIFE 
1. OAHU STORIES 
KAHALAOPUNA 
During the days of Kakuhihewa, king of Oahu, there is born in 
Manoa, Oahu, a beautiful girl named Kahalaomapuana. Kauakua- 
hine is her father, Kahioamano her mother. Her house stands at 
Kahoiwai. Kauhi, her husband, hears her slandered, and believing 
her guilty, takes her to Pohakea on the Kaala mountain, and, in 
