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'''Totoima'''
'''Totoima''' is a cannibal monster in the folklore of the Orokaiva people of the Pacific island of New Guinea.


The Orokaiva people of the Pacific island of New Guinea have a myth that includes the themes of shape shifting, unnatural union, and cannibalism. A monster named Totoima married a human woman. He was in human form at first, but when his wife had children, he turned into a wild boar and devoured them. His wife got the help of a magician. After Totoima ate his baby son, the magician made the boy grow up at once in the boar's stomach. The son then burst forth, killing the boar. The wife married the magician and fed the boar's meat to her neighbors.
==Story==
A monster named Totoima married a human woman. He was in human form at first, but when his wife had children, he turned into a wild boar and devoured them. His wife got the help of a magician. After Totoima ate his baby son, the magician made the boy grow up at once in the boar's stomach. The son then burst forth, killing the boar. The wife married the magician and fed the boar's meat to her neighbors.




source: [http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Mi-Ni/Monsters.html]
[[Category: Papuan mythology]]
[[Category: Shapeshifters]]

Latest revision as of 18:19, 27 May 2010

Totoima is a cannibal monster in the folklore of the Orokaiva people of the Pacific island of New Guinea.

Story

A monster named Totoima married a human woman. He was in human form at first, but when his wife had children, he turned into a wild boar and devoured them. His wife got the help of a magician. After Totoima ate his baby son, the magician made the boy grow up at once in the boar's stomach. The son then burst forth, killing the boar. The wife married the magician and fed the boar's meat to her neighbors.