“O Woman who puts the fire in the heaven and in the clouds, permit us to go on foot over the oven!”
Then those who wish to, pass onto the oven, one after another. If but one falls all will be burned. The last must watch the sorcerer, to return when he makes the sign.
That is the way this deed, the deed of the devil, is done by Tupua.
The woman called Vahine tahura’i is an evil spirit.
Concerning Piraeuri and Piritea, Tupua would better not have spoken, as it was a useless prayer.
Do not introduce the sorcery in the land of the whites!
Do not carry there this custom of lighting the oven!
It is the work of an evil spirit of the night; this act of Tupua.
For that reason I have said little of him in my story. I have spoken.
—Taumihau, The Man.