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Hawaiian Tales of Heroes and Champions (Hardcover)
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Hawaiian Tales of Heroes and Champions (Hardcover)
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Once in Old Hawaii, in the days when anything was possible,
supernatural kupua roamed the islands, challenging kings and
chiefs, tricking men, women, and boys. The Hawaiian people would
tell and retell tales of kupua exploits, and of the men who
challenged them. Some of the tall tales included in this volume are
of shape-shifters like Shark Man of Ewa, who could change from man
to shark, from shark to rat, from rat to a bunch of bananas. Others
are of kupua with extraordinary powers like Kana, who could stretch
himself as tall as a palm tree, as slender as a bamboo, as thin as
a morning glory vine, as fine as a spider web. And there are men
with rare and special weapons, such as Ka-ui-lani, whose talking
spear could pick the winner of a cock fight before the birds were
even in the ring. As in all tales told by word of mouth, change and
exaggeration crept in, and perhaps this is how the kupua tale
developed - through exaggeration. That they have survived, and
continue to entertain, in present-day written form, is an
indication of their universal appeal.
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