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Overview
Ker’s account gives Aidagagiogio leaf decorations, many spears and a threatening voice. He orders Waidudu, who has no hands or feet, to gather young coconuts. To make the task possible he gives Waidudu his own hands and feet to put on. After the first climb he takes them back, drinks the coconuts and throws the shells at Waidudu’s doorway.
Waidudu’s brothers arrange an ambush. During the next visit he climbs with the borrowed limbs and blows a conch shell from the treetop. Aidagagiogio cannot climb, fight or escape without them; he begs unsuccessfully for their return. The brothers kill him and burn his body. Waidudu keeps the limbs afterward. The supernatural feature belongs to their detachable transfer, not to treating Waidudu’s disability as monstrous.
Origins & earliest records
Annie Ker, Papuan Fairy Tales (London: Macmillan, 1910), The Man without Hands and Feet, pp. 141–143. Individual narrator unnamed.
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Papuan Fairy Tales: The Man without Hands and Feet, pp. 141–143
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- Primary collected textKer1910: The Man without Hands and Feet, pp. 141–143Research access: 2026-10-05
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