Menehune
(Oceanian mythology)
A mythical race of pygmies. The Hawaiians believed that they were
‘about two feet in height’. Their ‘bow-legged’ forms were encountered
in the forests, where travelers needed to be on guard. They shot tiny
arrows at the careless or the inquisitive, but left alone they lived happily in caves.
The
Menehune later migrated to New Zealand and became mixed up in the minds
of the Hawaiians with the Maoris. Traditions of little men are found
throughout the Pacific Ocean. While in distant Java they were credited
with the construction of temples, in Tonga they acted as foresters,
planting whole islands ‘in a single night’, and in Fiji invisible
dwarfs with ‘fuzzy mops of hair’ taught the people how to sing and
dance.
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