HF01-021b - Recordings at Gabmadzung, twentythree stories and songs in the style of stories and songs of spirits (dzob mamafe), about people (garagab a dzob) and about fights and wars (dzob a tir) Structure: 0. "Name/theme of the story/song" - Translated name/theme

1. "Ngaeng ono tuming" - a mythical man - dzob mamafe - Ngaroyana (Adzig), heard from Mpo - [W] 2. "Ngaeng fisin" - fisin is a navel, umbilical cord. Stories tell about all fisin turning to snakes and sleeping in a house at night, ngaeng fisin is a special keeper of them - dzob mamafe - Ngaroyana (Mpungumping) - [W] 3. "Afi serok ifur a dzi" - two women are fishing - dzob mamafe - Ngaroyana (Mpungumping) - [W] 4. "Ngaeng oren wante" - man with a long penis (a mythical figure) - ? - Ngaroyana (Mpungumping), heard from Gowan - [W] 5. "Mamafe egamor afi naron" - Ghost pierced little woman - ? - Ngaroyana (Mpungumping), heard from Gowan - [W] 6. "Ngaeng a Mporenan eraraung ariran" - The Mporenan men competed with each other - garagab a dzob - Ngaroyana (Mpungumping), heard from Mpes - [W] 7. "Dzob a tir" - stories about fights and wars - dzob a tir - Ngaroyana (Mpungumping), heard from Boano - [W] 8. "Boagam esab a dzob" - story about Boagam (men's name) - Ngaroyana, heard from Boano - [W] 9./10./11. "Nogon" - a form of sorcery - ? - Ngaroyana (Mpungumping), heard from Goan - [W] 12./13. "Ngarotsaneang waer" - a caterpillar with skin looking itchy from a mountain to the North of the Markham Valley - ? - Ngaroyana (Mpungumping) - [W] 14. "Sa aom" - spear magic - Ngaroyana - [W] 15. "Sa idzum" - dog magic - Ngaroyana - [W] 16./17. "Singing of Gone" - ? - ? - Ngaroyana - [W] 18./19. "Singing of Boagam" - singing of Boagam (men's name) - Ngaroyana - [W] 20. "Gowan esab" - Gowan (men's name) the elder - Ngaroyana (Mpunguming) - [W] 21. "Parag ari Ganteb a dzob" - story of Ganteb (men's name) - ? - Ngaroyana, heard from Boano - [W] 22. "Sa yami" - rain magic - Ngaroyana - [W] 23. "Feog a dzob" - story of Feog (a man of Feref clan in a cycle of stories. His son Ginug is said to have died in Munun in the sixties) - Ngaroyana - [W] . Language as given: