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"That Vava he find everything. He like old-time tahutahu, sorcerer. He tell me Annexe no fish. He say now no fish till finish those masheen." She laughed and rubbed my shoulders. "The fish slip away," she said, "and leave only their scales! Aue!"
Oe and tana are never used now in place of the plural outou and tatou; but in old folk-lore it is the classical style of addressing the gods in the collective sense. Tahutahu means sorcery, and also to kindle a fire.
I'm a boom! Hayrahrooyah! Boomagay! They associated the air and words with the fish, and deep down in their primitive hearts thought it an incantation, such as their tahutahu, the sorcerers of the island, spoke of old. "Tellee haapao maitai! Kelly was a wise man!" they would lament. Every one used a fine casting-net when fishing alone along the shores.
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