660 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI (ETH. ANN. 33 
when he goes ashore, one prompts him with the names of the food 
plants which are new to him. Then he stands the spirits on their 
heads, so shaming them that they give him the plants to take to 
Kohala. 
HIKU AND KAWELU 1 
The son of Keaauolu and Lanihau, who live in Kaumalumalu, 
Kona, once sends his arrow, called Puane, into the hut of Kawelu, 
a chiefess of Kona. She falls violently in love with the stranger 
who follows to seek it, and will not let him depart. He escapes, and 
she dies of grief for him, her spirit descending to Milu. Hiku, hear- 
ing of her death, determines to fetch her thence. He goes out into 
mid-ocean, lets down a koali vine, smears himself with rancid 
kukui oil to cover the smell of a live person, and lowers himself on 
another vine. Arrived in the lower world, he tempts the spirits to 
swing on his vines. At last he catches Kawelu, signals to his friends 
above, and brings her back with him to the upper world. Arrived at 
the house where the body lies, he crowds the spirit in from the feet 
up. After some days the spirit gets clear in. Kawelu crows like a 
rooster and is taken up, warmed, and restored. 
E. TRICKSTER STORIES 
1. THEFTS 
IWA 
At Keaau. Puna, lives Keaau, who catches squid by means of two 
famous eho shells, Kalokuna, which the squid follow into the canoe. 
Umi, the king, hears about them and demands them. Keaau, mourn- 
ing their loss, seeks some one clever enough to steal them back from 
Umi. He is directed to a grove of kukui trees between Mokapu 
Point and Bird Island, on Oahu, where lives Kukui and his thieving 
son Iwa. This child, “while yet in his mother’s womb used to go 
out stealing.” He was the greatest thief of his day. Keaau engages 
his services and they start out. With one dip of Iwa’s paddle, 
Kapahi, they are at the next island. So they go until they find Umi 
fishing off Kailua, Hawaii. Iwa swims 3 miles under water, steals 
the shells, and fastens the hooks to the coral at the bottom of the 
sea 400 fathoms below. Later, Iwa steals back the shells from Keaau 
for Umi. 
Twa’s next feat is the stealing of Umi’s ax, Waipu, which is kept 
under strict taboo in the temple of Pakaalana, in Waipio, on Hawaii. 
It hangs on a rope whose ends are fastened to the necks of two old 
women. A crier runs back and forth without the temple to proclaim 
the taboo. Twa takes the place of the crier, persuades the old women 
to let him touch the ax, and escapes with it. 
1See Thrum, p. 43. 
