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Definition of 'kehua'English
Noun
( kehua)
(New Zealand) A ghost; an evil spirit.
* 1906 , Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand , page 228 ,
- An old man explained to me, “The spirits of dead persons are afflicting such sufferers. These kehua control them. If the afflicted person survives he will be the medium of that [evil] spirit. Some people become demented when so affected.”
* 1924 , , M?ori Religion and Mythology: being an account of the cosmogony, anthropogeny, religious beliefs and rites, magic and folk lore of the M?ori folk of New Zealand , Part 2, 2005, Te Papa Press, page 42 ,
- The other aspect of the "etheric double" of the theosophist, that is the wraith or apparitional spirit seen after the death of the body, is the kehua of the Maori.
* 2001 , Patricia Grace, Irihapeti Ramsden, Jonathan Dennis, The Silent Migration: Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club, 1937-1948 , page 17 ,
- We'd say, 'Ready? Steady. Go!' And we'd run past his bedroom. Grandpa would be in his armchair looking out. We'd flash past crying out, ‘Kehua'! ' Kehua !’
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