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Wee piwakawaka - they pop in to the house from time to time, check the place for spiders etc then flit back out the door. According to maori custom the fantail coming into house presages a death or something. Never has though.. Delightful. Also had a bellbird in the trees here recently - beautiful song. Both very welcome little visitors.

Originally Posted by mudgripz

Wee piwakawaka - they pop in to the house from time to time, check the place for spiders etc then flit back out the door. According to maori custom the fantail coming into house presages a death or something. Never has though.. Delightful. Also had a bellbird in the trees here recently - beautiful song. Both very welcome little visitors.

Ive always thought it was more likely the wee fellas popped into whare AFTER someone had died....the week at home before being buried would tend to attract flies which may attract wee fantails????
funniest interaction with them was 30 plus years ago when we had one of those cicada years,there was that many of them you nearly needed earmuffs outside...the birdlife was fantastic all scoffing big far green cicadas...seeing fantail dealing with them was hilarious as cicada were so big they had to peck them to bits....

Originally Posted by mudgripz

Wee piwakawaka - they pop in to the house from time to time, check the place for spiders etc then flit back out the door. According to maori custom the fantail coming into house presages a death or something. Never has though.. Delightful. Also had a bellbird in the trees here recently - beautiful song. Both very welcome little visitors.

We have noticed we hardly see a piwakawaka around here lately but have a heap of tuis hanging around -which we rarely used to see here.

If anyone can tell me how to post a 30 sec video without having to resort to Youtube, let me know. Keen to post it cos its gone viral on a FB page Im on.

"In Māori mythology, the fantail was responsible for the presence of death in the world. Maui, thinking he could eradicate death by successfully passing through the goddess of death, Hine-nui-te-po, tried to enter the goddess’s sleeping body through the pathway of birth. The fantail, warned by Maui to be quiet, began laughing and woke Hine-nuite-po, who was so angry that she promptly killed Maui."

So that's how Maui met his end.

Originally Posted by zimmer

"In Māori mythology, the fantail was responsible for the presence of death in the world. Maui, thinking he could eradicate death by successfully passing through the goddess of death, Hine-nui-te-po, tried to enter the goddess’s sleeping body through the pathway of birth. The fantail, warned by Maui to be quiet, began laughing and woke Hine-nuite-po, who was so angry that she promptly killed Maui."

So that's how Maui met his end.

so he was trying to enter her birth canal while she slept!!!!!!!!!! nope nothing dodgy about that.no wonder the piwakawaka started laughing.
THANKYOU for posting that bit of folklore/legend
if you havent satthrough the kids movie MOANA ...do so,it caused a fair bit of controversy when it came out as Maui was depicted as "pacifica" not Maori....but as a 27th generation K1W1 personally I reckon they did it justice.

I HAD photo on phone of one sitting on my shotgun barrel...probably still on there but phone dropped into silage pit years ago.....still there or in cows puku somewhere.