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once more broke it before her when no one was looking. “ What,"
she said, " do you want to play again already ? â€ù " N0," replied
the man, " I have not lain with you." “ But we have just
come from it,â€ù responded his wife. “ No, I was getting sticks
in the bush all the time." “ Are you sure ? " " Yes.â€ù “ Then ,.
it must have been a temes. He was just like you." That
night, when both were asleep, this temes appeared to the man ¢
and said : " Did your wife tell you something to~day P " “ Yes.
A ghost came, and she thought it was I, and lay with him."
" Yes. Well I am that ghost. You thought your wife had only ‘
one husband ; but y0u’re wrong. She has really got two ; see ?
I am the other one.â€ù This was a hard saying, and the man was
inclined to resent it. Before he could reply, however, the ghost
continued : “ Your wife is going to have a boy soon. You look,
one month or two, and you will see. His name is to be Ainding ‘
Lili.â€ù The ghost then went across to the woman, who in turn i
dreamt that she saw him. To her he said : " I am the ghost you
lay with to-day ; you'll have a child now, a boy ; his name will
be Ainding Lili.“ Sure enough, the woman did conceive and
gave birth to a boy who was called, at the ghost's suggestion,
Ainding Lili.
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LIFE AFTER DEATH
Normally the nimwinin goes away to live in the Land of the
Dead, but sometimes it takes on temporarily, or permanently,
a new physical vehicle. Thus if after a man's death an animal
resembling him in some particular is seen near his house, it is
thought that his spirit has entered this animal. Soon after the
death of a. certain man of N51/et Nambar rank in the Nimangki,
a large white snake was seen about his house ; this gave rise to
the belief that his spirit was in this snake, for men of the Nevet
Nambar paint themselves white all over with lime when they
take part in the Nimangki ceremonial. The large size and the
colour of the snake indicated that it was the residence of the .
dead man's spirit. It was stated, too, by one informant, that l
after death the souls of men of Looremew entered, or turned
into, a certain variety of ï¬Åsh which lives in the stream running
through the sacred place of this village. Very similar to this
belief is that which holds that on the death of a man or woman
the nimwinin enters into some representative of the totemic
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