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Not long ago there was a woman living at Mota who was the child of one, and a very few years ago a female Vui with a child was seen in Saddle Island. Some of these were called Nopitu, which come invisibly, or possess those with whom they associate themselves. The possessed are called Nopitu.
He believes that the Creator is a magnified non-natural man, living in the sky. The Gippsland or Fuegian or Blackfoot Supreme Being is just a Being, anthropomorphic, not a mrart, or 'spirit. The Supreme Being is a wesen, Being, Vui; we have hardly a term for an immortal existence so undefined.
'Ah, he will say, 'yah ochen rrad vasveedyat, kak vui pazhavaetye? which in the United States means 'How do you do? to which she will reply, 'Blogadaru vas, yah ochen korosho, or 'very well, thank you. It is the knockout. A fellow has to shake hands so much that some of them are getting the habit around the company.
To myself it rather looks as if all impressions had their nunuai, real, bodiless, persistent, after-images; that the soul is the complex of all of these nunuai; that there is in the universe a kind of magical other, called mana, possessed, in different proportions, by different men, Vui, tamate, and material objects, and that the atai or ataro of a man dead, his ghost, retains its old, and acquires new mana.
That is our point. 'God is a spirit, these beings are Gods, therefore 'these are spirits. But to their initial conception our idea of 'spirit' is lacking. They are beings who existed before death, and still exist. The beings which never were human, never died, are Vui, the ghosts are Tamate. Dr. Codrington uses 'ghosts' for Tamate, 'spirits' for Vui.
A 'veridical hallucination, of the dying would give him a 'wraith'; a recognised hallucination of the dead would give him a ghost: the often reported and unexplained movements and disturbances would give him a vui, 'house spirit, 'brownie, 'domovoy, follet, lar, or lutin.
But as to render Vui 'spirits' is to yield the essential point, we shall call Vui 'beings, or, simply, Vui. A Vui is not a spirit that has been a ghost; the story may represent him as if a man, 'but the native will always maintain that he was something different, and deny to him the fleshly body of a man.
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