Yabim

Some tribes of Northern New Guinea—the Yabim, Bukaua, Kai, and Tami—like many Australian tribes, require every male member of the tribe to be circumcised before he ranks as a full-grown man; and the tribal initiation, of which circumcision is the central feature, is conceived by them, as by some Australian tribes, as a process of being swallowed and disgorged by a mythical monster, whose voice is heard in the humming sound of the bull-roarer.

Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom. § 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection 1922

So the Yabim of New Guinea believe that the spirit of a murdered man pursues his murderer and seeks to do him a mischief.

Chapter 20. Tabooed Persons. § 5. Manslayers tabooed 1922

Among the Yabim and Bukaua, two neighbouring and kindred tribes on the coast of Northern New Guinea, a girl at puberty is secluded for some five or six weeks in an inner part of the house; but she may not sit on the floor, lest her uncleanliness should cleave to it, so a log of wood is placed for her to squat on.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

So the Yabim of New Guinea believe that the spirit of a murdered man pursues his murderer and seeks to do him a mischief.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

” Among the Yabim and Bukaua, two neighbouring and kindred tribes on the coast of Northern New Guinea, a girl at puberty is secluded for some five or six weeks in an inner part of the house; but she may not sit on the floor, lest her uncleanliness should cleave to it, so a log of wood is placed for her to squat on.

Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth. § 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty 1922

The language which the Bukaua speak belongs, like the language of the Yabim, to the Melanesian, not to the Papuan family.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

The Bukaua and the Yabim, the two tribes with which I have been dealing in this and the last lecture, inhabit, as I have said, the coast about

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Amongst the spirits to whom the people pay a sort of worship there is one named Mate, who seems to be closely akin to Balum, a spirit about whom we shall hear more among the Yabim further to the east.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Among the Yabim and Bukaua, two neighbouring and kindred tribes on the coast of Northern New Guinea,

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

So the Yabim of New Guinea believe that the spirit of a murdered man pursues his murderer and seeks to do him a mischief.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897