Chapter XIV

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Kwega, kweganubwa'i, nubwa'i; Kwega, kweganuwa'i, nuwa'i; Kwega, kweganuma'i, numa'i ...

I have written them down here without full comment, to show their formal phonetic characteristics, which are indeed in all essentials quite similar to the samples previously quoted and analysed.

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The main parts of the spells in the magic of the Kula do not essentially differ in their characteristics from the tapwana of the canoe magic. In their form, some key-words are simply verbs used without any transformation in their narrative tense. Thus in the Talo (red paint) formula, the pair of verbs ikata ('it flares up'), inamila ('it flashes') is used with various nouns describing parts of the human head. The key-words of the Kayikuna Tabuyo (