This chapter advances the hypothesis that the Little People myths and leg ends were carried to various islands of the Indo-Pacific as an integral part of the voyagers’ cultural package in the process of Austronesianisation. On this basis, we employ the conceptualisation of an Austronesian “Primordial Little People Tale-Type” that—during the Austronesian…
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