A cautionary narrative taken from a 20th-century collection of Cook Islands oral traditions recounts the mistreatment of a daughter, Pataariri, by her chiefly father, Kōtuku, and his consequential death caused by a spirit power putting matters to rights. This paper highlights narrative features such as repetition, expansion, images and gestures, as well as the cultural valuing of the protection of vulnerable people by those in authority. Failure to look after others could result in spiritual interventions that admonished or even killed the perpetrators, a cultural form of policing behaviours that still operates today.

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Mangaia（库克群岛）的警示传统中的叙事特征和文化图案

来自20世纪库克群岛口述传统的警告性叙述叙述了女儿帕塔阿里里（Pataariri）的主要父亲科图库（Kōtuku）遭受的虐待，以及因精神力量将权利置于事端而造成的间接死亡。本文重点介绍了叙事特征，例如重复，扩展，图像和手势，以及当权者保护弱势群体的文化价值。不照顾他人可能会导致精神干预，甚至将肇事者告诫甚至杀害，这是一种文化形式的维持治安行为，至今仍然有效。