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DKH01-028_manjime_kausanga - Manjime kausaŋa ‘The ladder of a fig-tree spirit’

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Among the spirits who inhabit Awiakay land are manjime, bush spirits who dwell in fig-trees. Before felling a fig tree, the spirit of the tree needs to be informed, and all the climbing plants and roots carefully cleaned, lest the person who is felling the tree be punished by the spirit by being bitten by a snake, cutting their leg with an axe, buried by another falling tree, etc. It is not par...
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2018
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