Walking into the bush he came to a large tree, in which there lived an óriogorúho. The creature had been catching fish in the night and on seeing the man exclaimed, "Who you?" — "Me there from Masingara place. I run away, woman belong me he swear all time." — "You mate belong me," the oriogoniho said, "fish, half belong you, me half. You me two fellow stop." The oriogoruho, who had no fire, ate the fish raw after drying il in the sun, but the man thought to himself, "Every time I been cook him kaikai along fire, I no want kaikai he raw." "What's the matter you no kaikai?" the oriogoruho cried. The man wept, but the monster compelled him to eat the fish raw.

At sundown they went into the tree, and the man asked his companion, "Where bed?" The oriogoruho had very large ears, which he kept rolled up during the day, but at night he spread them out, using the one for a mat and covering himself with the other, and the man slept with him between the ears. In the middle of the night the oriogoruho got up and pulled away his ears, leaving the man to sleep on the ground. He went to catch fish, and on returning at dawn gave some to the man. While resting during they day the oriogoruho sent the man to fetch bananas from the garden. The man brought him good, ripe bananas, but the oriogoruho did not like these and sent him after young, green bananas, which he and bis comrade ate.

The man's ears began to grow as large as those of the oriogoruho. "You all right now," the monster said, "I been learn (teach) you. I very glad now — you got bed, I got bed, you got mat, I got mat."

One day when the oriogoruho went fishing, the man ran away home. All his friends had thought him dead, there had been a death-feast, and his wife had made a "gammon-grave" for him. He was received with great joy, and the people asked him, "You all right?" — "You no talk," the man replied hurriedly, for he knew that the oriogoruho would follow him in pursuit, "You take down altogether house, make him new house on top post, no man make him house along ground." They obeyed him and erected new houses on very tall posts, so that they could not be reached from the ground, and some built their houses in trees. The dogs and pigs, too, were brought from the ground into the houses.

The oriogoruho summoned all his friends to come and fight the people, and many oriogoruho, útumu, úere-bóro (the ghosts of people whose heads have been cut off), and other spirits arrived at the place, and the people could hear the noise ("all same wind he come"). The man threw out a dog for the oriogoruho, who, however, did not care for it. He then threw his eldest child to the oriogoruho, but the monster said, "No, I no want him pickaninny." Then all the people caught hold of the man and hurled him out, and the oriogoruho caught him, for he wanted him alone. The evil creature killed the man and divided his body among his companions, one receiving the head and the others the arms, legs, intestines, and other parts. When the man was devoured the evil beings left the place, and the people came down and built houses on the ground as before.

Adventures with Origoruso (Kiwai) or Oriogoruho (Mawata), vol.135. Recorded in Namai, Mawata (876: p.217-218)