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370 that he was preceded by another person. Immediately the dancer, who was a ghost, sprang up and beat the intruder so that he acquired a lung disease from which he died.

(e) An attendant on the head-chief went home late to his compound. On his way he saw on the ground a piece of stick which was as white as chalk. He picked it up and carried it home. As he approached the sacred instrument hut the piece of wood said, "Do not take me with you into this hut." The attendant was very much frightened, and dropping the piece of stick, he fled into the hut. The ghost, in the form of a stick, fled also on account of fright.

(f) A sick man called a neighbour to give him some medicine. Towards midnight many ghosts appeared before him and took his ghost (shadow) away with them. On their return they saw the man who had administered the medicine, and said that they had the ghost of the sick man with them. Through fear this man would not go into the hut. At dawn the sick man died, but the medicine man was not held by the townspeople to be responsible.

(g) A fisherman on his way home from the Nun River met an old woman who begged for some fish. The man, who was well-known to be very mean, refused her request. As he approached his hut he saw that it was in flames. The old woman, who was a ghost, had set fire to it.

(h) On the banks of the Nun River a man built a hut and lived in it for some time. One night ghosts came to him to ask for wood. In their playfulness they raised the hut very high above the ground. In the morning the man returned to the town.

(i) As a man approached his hut he observed in his compound a stranger leaning against a tree. He called out, "Who is there?" and received no answer. His question was repeated, and on still receiving no answer he threw his spear at the stranger, so that he fell to the ground. The man then went into his hut, and early next morning went outside to view the body. To his astonishment it