Sometimes the desolate spirit would be blown, as by the wind, back and forth, here and there, until no possible…
- Date of account
- Published 1915
- Source
- Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian
- Reference
- Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian · selected passage 131
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-25
Record summary
Sometimes the desolate spirit would be blown, as by the wind, back and forth, here and there, until no possible place of rest could be found on the island where death had come; then the ghost would leap into the sea, hoping to find the way to Milu through some sea-cave
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlySometimes the desolate spirit would be blown, as by the wind, back and forth, here and there, until no possible place of rest could be found on the island where death had come; then the ghost would leap into the sea, hoping to find the way to Milu through some sea-cave. Perhaps the waves would carry the ghost, or it might be able to swim to one of the other islands, where a new search would be made for some ancestor-ghost from which to obtain help. Not finding aid, it would be pushed and driven over rough, rocky places and through the wilderness until it again went into the sea. At last perhaps a way would be found into the home of the dead, and the ghost would have a place in which to live, or it might make the round through the wilderness again and again, until it could leap from a bluff, or fall from a rotten branch of the breadfruit-tree.
Historical context
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Modern context
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