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Bukimeasun An orphan growing up with her grandmother craves for fish and leaves home to find Bukimeasun, a fisherman who is half man half snake and said to be a canibal. Oral version: One day she suggests making a garden. When clearing the bush, she cuts off his snake tail. He becomes a human being and they marry. Edited version: She marries him, kills him one day when they go into the bush to make a garden and keeps his blood wrapped up in a parcel of leaves and hides it in the bush. Later he reappears as a beautiful man. (the story includes songs
This is the legend of Taikahano, the merman/water sprite from A'akapa (Nuku Hiva). Taikahano was bor...
There was once a child who was with other children and met a man who liked her. He asked the child t...
The story of a man who wanted to stop thieves from coming to his house and taking all his belongings...
The fisherman Bukimeasun is a man-eater with the head and body of a human and the tail of a snake. A...
The fisherman Bukimeasun is a man-eater with the head and body of a human and the tail of a snake. A...
The story is about a young man whose mother is a gigantic snake and lives in a cave. He regularily g...
This narrative is about two fishermen of whom one, Hekei, is successful and the other, Tuohe, never ...
Matabuu An orphan, called Matabuu, grows up with his grandparents who do not treat him well. He run...
Two sisters are married to Bukimeasun, a fisherman. They are treated badly by their mother-in-law an...
Two sisters are married to Bukimeasun, a fisherman. When the mother-in-law treats them badly, they r...
This is the story of a young man who fell in love with a girl down by the river. He did not know tha...
Two sisters are married to Bukimeasun, a fisherman. When the mother-in-law treats them badly, they r...
Legend; two brothers go fishing, on their way home they are followed by a snake. They give it their ...
The folk tale is about a girl who married a python and became rich. Following this girl, other paren...
Overe (coconut) Two boys go fishing. On their way back home, the sea-monster Suvin asks them for fi...
This is the legend of Taikahano, the merman/water sprite from A'akapa (Nuku Hiva). Taikahano was bor...
There was once a child who was with other children and met a man who liked her. He asked the child t...
The story of a man who wanted to stop thieves from coming to his house and taking all his belongings...
The fisherman Bukimeasun is a man-eater with the head and body of a human and the tail of a snake. A...
The fisherman Bukimeasun is a man-eater with the head and body of a human and the tail of a snake. A...
The story is about a young man whose mother is a gigantic snake and lives in a cave. He regularily g...
This narrative is about two fishermen of whom one, Hekei, is successful and the other, Tuohe, never ...
Matabuu An orphan, called Matabuu, grows up with his grandparents who do not treat him well. He run...
Two sisters are married to Bukimeasun, a fisherman. They are treated badly by their mother-in-law an...
Two sisters are married to Bukimeasun, a fisherman. When the mother-in-law treats them badly, they r...
This is the story of a young man who fell in love with a girl down by the river. He did not know tha...
Two sisters are married to Bukimeasun, a fisherman. When the mother-in-law treats them badly, they r...
Legend; two brothers go fishing, on their way home they are followed by a snake. They give it their ...
The folk tale is about a girl who married a python and became rich. Following this girl, other paren...
Overe (coconut) Two boys go fishing. On their way back home, the sea-monster Suvin asks them for fi...
This is the legend of Taikahano, the merman/water sprite from A'akapa (Nuku Hiva). Taikahano was bor...
There was once a child who was with other children and met a man who liked her. He asked the child t...
The story of a man who wanted to stop thieves from coming to his house and taking all his belongings...
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