12 People come across bones, thatching of roofs, or intestines of animals, which circumstance indicates that some other individuals live in their neigbourhood, the existence of whom they have not known, 15, 15 A, 196, 464. 13 People fall into a swoon at the sight of fire for the first time, or when eating food to which they are unaccustomed, or upon encountering a ghost, etc., 14, 15 B, 21, 43, 60 A, 75, 111, 201, 263, 272, 273, 468. 14 A certain individual happens to witness some incident of which the people are ignorant; this generally occurs when, under the pretext of a natural want, he has gone apart from the rest of his fellows, 22 (2 different instances), 25, 44 (2 different instances), 45, 57, 180, 235, 425, 432. 15 Shipwrecked people run the risk of being slain by those who find them, 153 B, 307-311. 16 A bush grows on the head of certain people and animals, 102, 123, 145, 459. 17 A woman tries to catch a certain fish; it passes into her vulva, 23, 199, 438. 18 A man gives away his wife's share in a fish which she has caught; this circumstance infuriates her, 23, 236, 239. 19 People travel on top of a bending tree, or are lifted up into the air by a tree, 22 A, 24, p. 118 E (2 different instances), 62, 149, 154, 414 B, 462. 20 A person's reflection in the water is taken to be himself in the flesh, 24, p. 118 E, no. 453. 21 A certain pose is described which characterizes the bushmen", 102 (other instances were related in the versions of certain tales, but have been omitted in the abbreviated texts). 22 A person is in the act of removing vermin from the head of a friend; meanwhile the latter invariably falls asleep, 102, 223, 368 A. 23 People flee from someone pursuing them; in order to put themselves beyond the reach of their pursuer they build a house on very tall posts, or take refuge in a tree, 102, 135, 154, 163, 172, 367, 459, 459 A. 24 People are beset by an enemy in some place of refuge; in order to appease their pursuer they throw down an animal or child to the latter, 102, 135, 163. 25 Certain beings who are provided with enormous ears use one of them as a mat and cover themselves with the other when sleeping 135, 145, 163. 26 The famous water-hole in Boigu, 37, 40 B, p. 117, no. 495. 27 A garden grows up from a man's semen, 43, 44. 28 A certain drum when being beaten calls out some person's name, 22, 56 E, pp. 117 C and 118 D. 29 Certain wild beings which devour the bodies of their victims however leave the bones, the hands, feet, and heads intact, 137, 252 D. 30 A flame is constantly burning in the hand of a certain person; from this flame the people obtain fire, 44, 52, 60, 274, 276 A. no. 450. 31 A person is killed in a garden; various plants grow up from his body, 44, p. 118 F, 32 Mythical heroes, or parts of their bodies, are subsequent to death transformed into stones, 44, 54, 60. 33 Reefs and sandbanks have been formed from human bodies, or parts of such, which have been thrown into the sea, 44 J, 53, 60, 459. 34 A man keeps certain things belonging to him in the vulva of his wife, 45, 56. 35 People or things are transformed into quite a small size so as to be hidden from sight or carried away easily; subsequently they resume their natural size, 22, 45 (2 different instances), 46, 62 (2 different instances). 36 A certain dangerous beast is appeased by the people by being given enormous quantities of food to devour; this causes it to fall asleep, so that the people can make their escape, 144, 147, 172, 414 C. 37 People who run away from a beast, which has fallen asleep, leave behind them certain animals or things which delay the pursuer by talking to him, 147, 154, 410. 38 People set out on some expedition; two men pretend to be ill and remain at home; in the absence of the rest they cause some mischief, 5, 55. 39 A woman who has been outraged by a man informs her husband; he asks her to keep the matter secret so as not to frustrate his plans of revenge, 55, 259, 470. 40 A person escapes from a conflict with his people (by transforming himself into an animal, etc.); previously to disappearing he addresses his pursuers and explains his conduct, 9, 55, 61, 130 (2 different instances), 151, 154, 155, 212, 226, 263, 410, 435. 41 The most effective way of shooting a person is to hit him first in one armpit and then in the other, 120, 140, 148, 151, 174, 249, 259, 464, 474. 42 Certain wicked beings are in the habit of continually breaking wind, 148 A, 150, 151, 43 A woman dies in pregnancy, and her child is born after her death, 57 K, 469, 470. 44 A warrior returning from a fight brings captured heads with him in his canoe; they begin to decay; flies and worms swarm over the whole canoe as well as over the warrior himself, 60, 156. 45 A person invites all the people to a dance; he purposes that a certain individual whom he is anxious to meet should appear with the rest; or he wishes to show off some person to the people, 149, 230, 246 D, 365, 368, 414. 46 A person is fighting his enemies who attack him from their canoes; by quickly turning his head round he causes such a strong gust of wind with his head-dress that the canoes are destroyed, 60 B, 61. 47 A person or part of his body is transformed into a dugong, turtle, or fish, 60 C, 61 A, 76, 152, 153 A. 48 A warrior who expects an attack from his enemies hides in the place where he keeps the heads captured by him on previous occasions, 60, 61. 49 A certain person or being frightens a whole district; those who have not met this being ridicule the idea that the people should be in fear of one individual, 61, 76. 50 The peopie endeavour to kill some man who has been the cause of their anger; by transforming himself into an animal and then perching on the heads and shoulders of his pursuers he induces them to slay each other. The same trickery is also performed in other ways, 61 (2 different instances), 212, 263. 1 51 People who set out on a journey are, under certain circumstances, warned not to stop on their way, or something evil will befall them, 56, 150. 52 The people try to escape from a malignant being who has fallen asleep; previously to making the attempt they ascertain that the being is actually sleeping, 78, 102, 147 A, 172, 365, 368 A. 58 Circumstances connected with white people, 84, 85. 54 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. 55 Some person who lives alone calls out at random to anyone who might be within hearing distance to come to him, 102, 159, 170, 365, 477. 56 A man abuses a grass skirt belonging to a woman; through wearing the skirt she becomes pregnant, 195, 260. 57 A person is disguised in a skin full of bad sores; in reality he is healthy and handsome, 201, 456. 58 People boast to their friends that they have been out fighting or hunting; this is disco. vered to be mere lying, 471, 478. 59 A person or being has been left on the top of a tree; he scrapes a passage inside the trunk right down to the ground trying thus to escape, 259, 440, 454 A. 60 A man causes another man's hands to get jammed up in the cleft of is then badly treated, 30, 227, 260. tree; the latter 61 A mysterious thing approaches a man in the water and is speared by him, 262, 283, 286. 62 Incidents with wicked old hags, 154, 155, 156, 410, 411. 63 A man and his wife wishing to get rid of their little child let it drift away on a river, 253, 454. 64 A boy sees a girl nude and begins to cry for a red thing, 454, 468. 65 People who pretend 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. 67 Young girls with round breasts are greatly preferred to older women, 61, 62, 340, 454 D.. 63 A man who lives, or has been closed 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. SUBJECT INDEX. Instances in which a certain subject is repeatedly mentioned in one. and the same tale, or versions of it, or on the same page have not been separately included in this index. 'Agriculture, tales of, no. 261-271; methods of gardening, etc., p. 10, no. 44, 260, 266, 267, 268, 440, 449. The origin of plants: gámoda,. no, 9 A, 14, 269, 270, 271; bananas, no. 51, 168;. coconut trees, no. 262, 263; yams, no. 264, 265; taro, no. 266; kokea (a kind of taro?), no. 267; vegetables and fruit grow up from semen, no. 14, 43, 44, 269; from excrements, no. 44 F, 270; certain vegetables have been given birth by a woman, no. 44 E, 264; how the cultivation of coconut trees spread all over Kiwai, no. 4 C; how sago palms came to Kíwai, no. 133; how different kinds of yam were given names, no. 44 B. Magic in gardening: magic and ,,medicines" used for promoting the growth, no. 13, p. 83, no. 44, 76, 104, 105, 123, 128, 261, 262, 265, 266, 267, 268, p. 340, 343, no. 286, p. 357, no. 414 A, 450; bullroarers used in agriculture, no. 261; magic used for scaring away pigs from the gardens, no. 93, 104, 126; for summoning pigs to other people's gardens, no. 128, 486; pigs are attracted to a garden if a man and woman have connection there, no. 334; magic used for destroying other people's gardens, no. 123, 244, 335 B; stealing other people's luck in gardening, p. 358. Miscellaneous instances: Sóido and Pékai, the promoters of agriculture, no. 44; signs used to indicate that nobody should take fruit from certain trees, 4 D, marks on trees showing ownership, no. 440. Harvest ceremony, see Ceremonies (gáera); mythical beings give advice in dreams how to plant gardens, see Dreams; how the people were taught to make gardens, see Teaching. Anatomy; ideas regarding the heart and lungs, no. 445. Animals; tales of animals or tales in which animals appear. no. 238, 274, 413-448; animals which talk, p. 224, no. 257, 269, 274 A, 292, 410, 414; animals and birds employed for performing various commissions, no. 25, p. 119, 129, no. 130, 148, 231, 257, 272, 276, 290, 433, 438; describe their own ways and habits, no. 290, 457; took part in a dance, no.. 457; taming wild pigs, keeping and feeding them, etc., p. 388, no. 280, 365; keeping a tamed hornbill, p. 540; frogs have the effect of ruining people's teeth, no. 124; the origin of the peculiar attributes of certain animals, see Explanation of certain conspicuous feat ures; giving names to various animals, see Names. Dogs: tales of, no 257, 305, 306, 435-437; the first dog existing, no. 279 C; Bígama and Wáuri, two mythical dogs, no. 279; how the dogs lost their faculty of speech, p. 321, 323, no. 436; when the dogs ceased to obey their masters, p. 321; thoughtfulness of dogs, no. 313. Pigs (see Hunting): the making of the first pig, p. 341, no. 279 B; the use of pigs in the mogúru ceremony, pp. 339 sq., no. 280; the wild boar is the symbol of fighting, p. 340; how pigs came to Kíwai, no. 46; tales of mythical pigs, no. 459, 460. Birds: Kapía, the black cockatoo, no, 1; 3 A, 272, p. 498; ferocious hawks (wario), no. 148, 433, 460, 461; the man who was fed by a hawk, no. 1; wario is Marúnogéré's bird, p. 342. Crocodiles: the origin of, p. 139; tales of or adventures with crocodiles, no. 1, 2 C, 13, 47, 57, 221, 322-326, 388, 431-434, 439, 460, p. 540; the old crocodile to whom the young ones brought food, pp. 469 sq. Snakes: tales of, or adventures with, no. 89, 390, 413-430, 448, p. 502, 481; changing a snake into a stick, no. 402. Origin of animals: the making of various animals, no. 25, p.. 129, 130, no. 55, 57, 60 C, p. 194, no. 118, no. 153, p. 322, 341, no. 279 B, C, 432, p. 470, no. 441, p. 503, no. 463. Transformations: of people into animals (and sometimes re-transformation), no. 9 C, p. 83, 86, no. 24, 28, 31, 33, 34, 40, 44 F, G, H, 53, 54, 59, 61, pp. 162 sq., 163, no. 130, p. 236, no. 153, 154, p. 271, 281, no. 231, 410, 453, 454, p. 493, no. 459, 462, 472; people who pass into animals, no. 49, 55, p. 322; how a person would acquire the faculty of transforming himself into a snake, no. 125; how certain men were tranformed into birds and fish, and how the latter were ever since separated from the people, no. 457; mythical beings which appear as animals, no. 48, p. 186, no. 125, 419; the spirit of dead persons appearing in the shape of animals, spirits of dead animals, see Spirits of the dead; animals and birds which at times appear as men, p. 67, no. 256 C, 272 C, 360, 415, 416, 418, 420, 421, 431; one species of animals are transformed into another, p. 194, no. 118, 123, 279 C; a snake or fish changes into a canoe, no. 413 A, B, 419, 454 B; a snake changes into a stick, no. 402; pieces of wood turn into fish, p. 102; fruit are transformed into vermin, no. 32; a dead thing becomes a bird, p. 343. Mythical animals, see Mythical beings; spirits of mythical animals come to people in dreams, see Dreams; marriage or sexual intercourse. with animals, see Sexual life; animals which commit suicide, see Suicide. Arithmetics, p. 3. Astronomy; tales of the heavenly bodies, no. 451-455; the moon and the monthly courses of Birth; Conception: without actual cohabitation, no. 459 A; from eating a certain shell-fish or swampfish, no. 34, 266; in consequence of a digital assault, p. 119; from inhaling the smell of a banana, no. 62; from the woman eating her ear-lobes, pp. 226 sq.; from eating certain seeds, no. 148 A; from leaves which a man had used in his dancing decoration, no. 195; from a man having abused the woman's petticoat, no. 257 A, 260; from the fruit-spike of a coconut palm passing into the woman, no. 262 G; from eating certain leaves, no. 265. Pregnancy and child-bed: observances, p. 12, 76, 85, no. 15 B, 34 A, 157 A, 167, |