The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-24

fhe natives living at KaiTrki am
in the region of Palolo are greatly in.
teFested at present in recent pranks Of
the playful zephyrs which sweep across
che Diamond Head promontory and
play hide and seek in the great. greer
valley lying on the mauka side of tn.
sEaialae car-line.
Some of them are not a little per.
tnrbed.
1t appears that the wind in the dis.
tricts mentioned has lately deveiope.
alarming roof-raising properties ana al
least one Kahuna has been retained
by puzzled victims of the baleful breeze
to solve the problem.
About ten days ago a family were
sitting on the yeranda of their cottage
at Kaimuk when a strange thing oc-
CURED. 1t was the afternoon of a fine
and comparatively windress day. SUD.
denly the roof of the fowl-house wa.
seen to leave the main structure anc
to sail through the air. in a south.
easterly direction. finally descending
like great bird in an adjacent 10,
filled with lantana. The distance from
the chicken-house to the spot where
the roof fell was measured and found
to be sixty-one feet.
The roof is I. very heavily framed
affair and shingled and it took three
strong men to replace it again.
The other occurrence was on the
premises of 81 Mr.. Stone who recently
acquired homestead lot in Palolo Val
ley near the foot of the mountains, and
place thereon. The heavy iron roof OF
a japanese house in his lot unexpected
ly took fright one day last week and
was carried distance, of fifty odd
feet. This roof is estimated to weigh
over two hundred pounds and came to
earth with crash which brought the
Stone family out of their home in a
state akin to terror. The day on which
the iron roof took an airing was also
calm. which increases the strangenesl
of the occurrence.
Both these incidents have been SUBJ
jected to considerable discussion among
the neighbors and a diversity of opin-
ion as to the cause CT the phenomena
exists.
The white folks attribute the thing
to miniature whirlwinds which are COM
mon Il. the district. but which, on ac-
count of the untenanted condition OF
that part of the country have not had
chance to do enough damage to
attract attention.
1t is apparent to the most casual OBJ
server that the wind in the eastern
suburb blows in spots.
The natives, however. have a differ
ent explanation and lay the disturbance
of property to the spirits of the dead
WHO are duuOySO ny Tic oeSCeiaeioA Va
ancient places OF worship and sacri-
fetal affairs.
Heiaus are said to be not uncommon
in the district, which abounds with
strange stones about which weir.a sto-
ries are whispered by superstitious ka-
nakas.
1.-The ghost no like pig and chicken
near his house, said one ancient Ha-
waiian, ''by and by to much huhu."
Curiously enough, short time be-
fore the occurrence at Kaimuki, the
owners of the fowl-house had lost a
pig under inexplicable circumstances.
The animal, which was in the pink OF
condition, was one night, for convent
ence sake, stabbed in the chicken-house.
The next morning it was found dead.
: Other natives hold the opinion that
the ghosts and the spirits of the long
dead are irritated at the wholesale in
vestigation of heiaus in different parts
of the island and are endeavoring, by
force of fear, to check the disturbance
of other similar sacred spots.
And all the time they are wondering
what awful warning will follow the
persisted pig and the soaring roofs.
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