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Updated: May 21, 2025

The dead go about and feast with the living, who sometimes think they have a woman of Coaibi in their arms who vanishes suddenly; and they allege that those dead inhabitants of Coaibi may be known by the want of navels. The souls of the living they name goeiz, those of the dead opia.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

There was an old woman there of the name of Opia, whom he called his wife, and a 'heavenly blessed soul, and asked Sir Grim to marry them, with various other remarks of this kind, which I will not recount. "I have little liking to write about his ongoings, which were all disgraceful and shameful, in accordance with the nature of the actor.

Andrew Lang - The Book of Dreams and Ghosts