- Tipua
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Māori mythology , tipua or tupua are a type of differing shapeddemon or "uncanny thing".cite book | last = LIEUT COLONEL GUDGEON C.M.G. | title = Journal of the Polynesian Society: THE TIPUA-KURA AND OTHER MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD | publisher = PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LIMITED | date = 1906 | location = Original from the University of California | pages = Page 27 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=hKAcAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA27&dq=Tipua+-wikipedia&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA28,M1 | doi = | id = ] Tipua could be common objects; sometimes even trees and rocks were associated as these types of spirits. These places where tipua were believed to inhabit served as areas where travelers would make offerings to the spirits of the land, in the form of herbs or branches. Neglected areas would harass travelers and visitors with such things as bad weather conditions.cite book | last = Best | first = Elsdon | title = The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days | publisher = WELLINGTON, N.Z. DOMINION MUSEUM | date = 1934 | location = New Zealand Electronic Text Centre | pages = Page 54 | url = http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-BesMaor-c3-9.html | doi = | id = ]Some stone tipua were believed to wander from place to place. In these cases, travelers were obliged to make two offerings.
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