W. D. Westervelt's collection, translated from Hawaiian sources in Honolulu — Milu and the realm of the dead, the leaping places of the spirits, the ghost of Wahaʻula, Kauhuhu the shark god, Nanaue the shark-man, the poison-god Kālaipāhoa, and an appendix on the classes of ghosts, the ʻaumākua and the moʻo that includes one of the earliest printed accounts of the night marchers.
SUBJECTSHawaiʻiGhostsʻAumākuaUnderworld
CONTENTS · 30
- 1TABLE OF CONTENTS1 MIN
- 2INTRODUCTION5 MIN
- 3I — THE GHOST OF WAHAULA TEMPLE10 MIN
- 4II — MALUAE AND THE UNDER-WORLD6 MIN
- 5III — A GIANT'S ROCK-THROWING4 MIN
- 6IV — KALO-EKE-EKE, THE TIMID TARO2 MIN
- 7V — LEGENDARY CANOE-MAKING6 MIN
- 8VI — LAU-KA-IEIE11 MIN
- 9VII — KAUHUHU, THE SHARK-GOD OF MOLOKAI9 MIN
- 10VIII — THE SHARK-MAN OF WAIPIO VALLEY6 MIN
- 11IX — THE STRANGE BANANA SKIN6 MIN
- 12X — THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN8 MIN
- 13XI — HAWAIIAN GHOST TESTING8 MIN
- 14XII — HOW MILU BECAME THE KING OF GHOSTS5 MIN
- 15XIII — A VISIT TO THE KING OF GHOSTS7 MIN
- 16XIV — KALAI-PAHOA, THE POISON-GOD6 MIN
- 17XV — KE-AO-MELE-MELE, THE MAID OF THE GOLDEN CLOUD29 MIN
- 18XVI — PUNA AND THE DRAGON9 MIN
- 19XVII — KE-AU-NINI — part 111 MIN
- 20XVII — KE-AU-NINI — part 212 MIN
- 21XVII — KE-AU-NINI — part 311 MIN
- 22XVII — KE-AU-NINI — part 411 MIN
- 23XVII — KE-AU-NINI — part 58 MIN
- 24XVIII — THE BRIDE FROM THE UNDER-WORLD — A LEGEND OF THE KALAKAUA FAMILY15 MIN
- 25THE DECEIVING OF KEWA6 MIN
- 26HOMELESS AND DESOLATE GHOSTS6 MIN
- 27AUMAKUAS, OR ANCESTOR-GHOSTS10 MIN
- 28THE DRAGON GHOST-GODS5 MIN
- 29CHAS. R. BISHOP6 MIN
- 30PRESS NOTICES5 MIN
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THE TEXT
Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology): Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #39195). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.