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Overview
Turner locates Ulavai in a household of an Aana village. After a woman’s premature delivery while bathing, relatives search for the infant and find an unusual number of prawns or crayfish instead.
The family interprets those creatures as the infant’s transformed presence and recognizes a new household god associated with them. The account links the animal manifestation to a particular family event; the edition gives neither a named village nor an individually named transformed infant.
Origins & earliest records
George Turner’s missionary collection first appeared in 1884. The hosted title page identifies an Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 1984 reprint. Its household reports require their individual contexts and do not define all contemporary Samoan understandings.
Records & interpretation
Chapter V, numbered entry 22, Ulavai, supplies this account. Local family differences are retained; the historical author’s reported supernatural causes are not independently established biological or medical findings.
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Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before, Chapter V, 22, Ulavai
Complete numbered household record; separate family variants retained where present.
Family & connections
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References
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- Primary collected account in historical missionary editionTurner, Chapter V: Gods Inferior, or Household GodsResearch access: 2026-10-05
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