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Overview

Turner records Le Sa under several local relationships. In village war accounts a lizard’s movement around spear bundles, house posts or travellers was read as encouragement or warning. The animals’ different movements mattered to those accounts; no exceptional lizard anatomy is described.

Other communities associated Le Sa with an owl and agricultural abundance. Caterpillars were explained as servants sent to forage and punish, and frightening references to Le Sa were directed at children. A separate household account makes a centipede the manifestation. The owl’s agricultural role and the household centipede are distinct from the lizard war accounts, rather than parts of one animal’s body.

Lizard manifestationOwl-associated agricultureCentipede household variant
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Origins & earliest records

Turner’s missionary collection first appeared in 1884; the hosted edition identifies the 1984 University of the South Pacific reprint. The numbered local accounts record varying associations without identifying individual informants for this entry.

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Records & interpretation

Complete Chapter IV numbered entry 23, Le Sa. Its separately situated versions supply these associations; reported supernatural causation and the author’s missionary judgments remain distinguished from independently verified events.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before, Chapter IV, 23, Le Sa

    George Turner, missionary collector · 1884 original; hosted transcription identifies 1984 reprint

    Complete numbered local accounts; forms, locations and narrative functions distinguished.

Family & connections

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References

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  1. Primary collected account in historical missionary editionTurner, Chapter IV: Gods Superior—War and General Village GodsResearch access: 2026-10-05

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