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Traditional story
One day a father and mother took with them their child, Nebiaur into the bushlands. An example of the child was given to be like a girl in the village. While spending the whole day away so in the afternoon, the child became exposed to spirits of the land. The spirits through their supernatural powers, possessed the child and started crying and resisted breastfeeding from her mother then trying to keep her calm or feeding her as if she was hungry.
They went home and she was still crying because of being possessed by the spirits. The spirits followed and took the child away from the parents and brought her up to the nearby bushes and up the treetops. She was feed with some bitter water and forced to continue drinking despite her refusing to take until water was blocking out her nose, ears and mouth till she died.
Sooner after, the spirits can out shouting and calling the child's father, ToGirarau and mother IaTaka to get their attention. The people eventually heard the shouting and they all went with the parents to the place to be told that the child had died. The spirits threw down the dead child to the ground from high up in the treetops to the ground in front of them and her body was crushed and stomach split open and intestines coming out.
(Steven Gagau, April 2024) |
