<div>Could 'lolong' (in 'lolong kapul') possibly be <em>longlong</em>? Namely, in Kanjimei, East Sepik Province, I heard a Tok Pisin term "sik longlong" used for epilepsy.</div>
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<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:32:06 +1000<br>From: Robin Hide <<a href="mailto:rhide@coombs.anu.edu.au">rhide@coombs.anu.edu.au</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Mihalic] sik muruk<br>To: <a href="mailto:mihalic@anu.edu.au">
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<br><br>1. For those of us not privileged to have seen extreme cassowary behaviour,<br>the following two dramatic eye-witness accounts (sent to me off line) are<br>notable:<br><br>(i). from Dan Jorgensen (Telefomin area, West Sepik P):
<br><br>re: "...in both captive birds and wild ones, I have seen them running<br>around in a frenzy, kicking trees and bashing into things. Could be a<br>conceptual link to epilepsy... " AM<br><br>"I can confirm this from witnessing a truly scary incident in which a
<br>captive (adolescent) bird got loose in a village and began running up and<br>down the line of houses, pinwheeling its legs, and leaving deep score marks<br>on houseposts. Kids ran into houses, adults scattered, and a very nervous
<br>village eventually calmed it, rounded it up and herded it back to its<br>enclosure. The incident did not seem motivated or an act of rage - the bird<br>did not respond one way or another to humans around it until the 'frenzy'
<br>passed. When I later asked folks about it, they said it was pasin bilong<br>muruk. They claim to have witnessed such behaviour in the bush, and on the<br>part of isolated animals (this not duelling or display, apparently). They
<br>said a muruk would just kirap nogut and start running and kicking out at<br>trees, and said there are lots of scarred tree trunks to bear witness to this."<br><br><br>(ii). From Andy Mack (at Varirata Park, outside Moresby, Central Province).
<br><br>"Oddly, the very first cassowary I ever saw in the wild, on my first<br>excited trip to Varirata a day after arriving at the luxurious old<br>Jackson's Airport was of a cassowary fight or frenzy. It was so nutty and
<br>fast in dense vegetation, it looked like two birds, but rather than just<br>fighting, they seemed to both be in a frenzy. Or maybe they were fighting<br>and chasing. But it seemed the entire undergrowth around me was alive with
<br>thrashing cassowaries. I've not seen anything like it since. Perhaps they<br>were pissed off that some punky graduate student had arrived to pry into<br>their secret lives…".<br><br><br>2. Interestingly, Bryant's earlier 'death throes' discussion of sik muruk
<br>in tok pisin closely mirrors the apparent logic involved in the term for<br>epilepsy in the Nissan Island (Bougainville) language of Nehan (though the<br>species are different):<br>Thus:<br><br>lolong kapul (from: lolong kapulu) n. epilepsy, name means hanging possum,
<br>refers to the jerking movements made by a dying possum.<br>Halia: kotskotsibong.<br>Nehan-English Dictionary, p. 104<br><<a href="http://208.145.80.1/pacific/png/pubs/0000020/Nehan_dictionary.pdf">http://208.145.80.1/pacific/png/pubs/0000020/Nehan_dictionary.pdf
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