the fairy chief (Chapter XIV)

Family: the Patu-paiarehe (fairy people) · Role: fairy chief · First appears: Chapter XIV · The Patu-paiarehe: The Fairy People of the Mountains · Part 2

Life events

• The fairy chief carried Tawhaiatu away from her home.(Chapter XIV · The Patu-paiarehe: The Fairy People of the Mountains · Part 2)
  • With: Tawhaiatu
  • “one morning when Ruarangi returned to his house in the early dawn, after having been out all night eel-fishing, he found that his wife had disappeared.”
• Protected by kokowai, Ruarangi and Tawhaiatu resisted the fairy chief, who returned to Pirongia.(Chapter XIV · The Patu-paiarehe: The Fairy People of the Mountains · Part 2 · 📍 Pirongia)
  • With: Ruarangi Tawhaiatu
  • “He raised his voice in a song of lamentation, for he loved Tawhaiatu, but he could not prevail against the sacred kokowai and the powerful spells of Ruarangi. And then the fairy returned sorrowing to his dwelling on lofty Pirongia.”

Chapter XIV · The Patu-paiarehe: The Fairy People of the Mountains · Part 2

• married with Tawhaiatu “before her fairy husband could follow in pursuit”

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Extracted from the original text of Te Tohunga. Made with Rho MD.